Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska

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Recorded21 Aug 2018

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Catherine Barnett joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Wislawa Szymborska's poem "Maybe All This" (translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Barańczak) and her own poem "Son in August." Barnett is the author of the poetry collections "Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced," "The Game of Boxes," and "Human Hours," out in September. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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