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United States Poet Laureate Charles Simic recites a poem titled "Prodigy" about life and chess.
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Beautiful.
Posted by: telecom | October 15, 2007 12:01 PM | Reply to this comment
Amazing - thank you for that. I look forward to seeing what he'll do as P.L. I really got into poetry because of Hass's book "Poet's Choice" during his time as P.L.
Posted by: jill bryant
| October 15, 2007 11:00 PM | Reply to this comment
The first time I heard that poem, I thought it was incoherent. But on the second listen I drew the connection. That really was beautiful.
Posted by: max | October 16, 2007 2:22 PM | Reply to this comment
decent poem, but i wasn't moved much.
Posted by: Ttee | October 29, 2007 8:15 PM | Reply to this comment
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