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Voices from the Grave #11: Dylan Thomas Reading ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’

Posted on March 19, 2012 by maedez
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‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas.

 

 

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

 

 

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Voices from the Grave # 10: Marianne Moore Reading ‘Bird-Witted’

Posted on March 12, 2012 by maedez
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‘Bird-Witted‘ by Marianne Moore

 

 

…the still living

beetle has dropped

out, she picks it up and puts

it in again.

 

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Voices from the Grave # 9: Edith Sitwell Reading ‘Still Falls the Rain’

Posted on March 5, 2012 by maedez
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‘Still Falls the Rain’ by Edith Sitwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6_2x948EEw

 

Dark as the world of man, black as our loss-

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Voices from the Grave # 8: William Carlos Williams Reading ‘To Elsie’

Posted on February 27, 2012 by maedez
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‘To Elsie’ by William Carlos Williams

 

 

The pure products of America

go crazy-

 

 

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Voices from the Grave # 7: Robert Penn Warren Reading ‘Love Recognized’

Posted on February 22, 2012 by maedez
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‘Love Recognized’ by Robert Penn Warren

 

 

There are many things in the world and you

Are one of them.

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Voices from the Grave #6: W.H. Auden Reading ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’

Posted on February 13, 2012 by maedez
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‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’ by W.H. Auden

 

 

He disappeared in the dead of winter

 

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Voices from the Grave #5: Edna St. Vincent Millay Reading ‘Love is Not All’

Posted on February 6, 2012 by maedez
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‘Love is Not All’  by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawJavK7Lu8

 

Love it not all: it is not meat nor drink

 

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Voices from the Grave #4: Ted Hughes Reading ‘The Thought-Fox’

Posted on January 30, 2012 by maedez
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‘The Thought-Fox’ from ‘Hawk in the Rain’ (1957).

 

 

I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:

 

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Voices from the Grave #3: Anne Sexton Reading ‘The Truth the Dead Know’

Posted on January 23, 2012 by maedez
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‘The Truth the Dead Know’ from ‘All My Pretty Ones’ (1962).

 

 

Men kill for this, or for as much.

 

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Voices from the Grave #2: Robert Lowell Reading ‘Epilogue’

Posted on January 16, 2012 by maedez
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‘Epilogue’ from ‘Day by Day’ (1977).

Yet why not say what happened?

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