Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath

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Recorded31 Oct 2019

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Vijay Seshadri joins Kevin Young to read “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” by Sylvia Plath, and his own poem “Cliffhanging.” Seshadri is a poet whose work has been honored with the James Laughlin Award and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. His latest book is “3 Sections,” and he recently became the poetry editor of The Paris Review. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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