Poems for Company August 26, 2024

August 26, 2024 00:29:02
Poems for Company August 26, 2024
Poems for Company
Poems for Company August 26, 2024

Aug 26 2024 | 00:29:02

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Show Notes

“Manual Labor”: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month’s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three poems are featured: Jericho Brown’s “Labor”, from The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Seamus Heaney’s “Thatcher,” from  Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). Mary Robinson, “London’s Summer Morning.” The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used...

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