37 min
Eve Asher reads Wallace Stevens Who Reads Poetry?
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In this episode, We listen to Eve Asher read 'The Emperor of Ice-Cream' by Wallace Stevens. Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He won the pulitzer prize for his collected poems in 1955. Eve and I talk of death, the primary subject of this poem. She describes the multiple introductions to this poem through her life and how she came to appreciate it. We gossip about then famous and now dead writers getting in to a bar fight.
In this episode, We listen to Eve Asher read 'The Emperor of Ice-Cream' by Wallace Stevens. Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He won the pulitzer prize for his collected poems in 1955. Eve and I talk of death, the primary subject of this poem. She describes the multiple introductions to this poem through her life and how she came to appreciate it. We gossip about then famous and now dead writers getting in to a bar fight.
37 min