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Lynn Solomon reads Anti-Pastoral by Vievee Francis
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Transcript
Pádraig Ó Tuama: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama. And when I was a teenager, late one evening I saw my father come into the kitchen, grab a slice of bread, and eat it. I think his blood sugar had dropped. And there was so much about that moment that struck me. I was a teenager with angst about myself and everybody around me, and noticing a moment of vulnerability in somebody else struck me. And I think that was telling me I needed to be a poet, because I had to do something with what I’d seen. And over and over again, the more I’ve written poetry and read poetry, the more I realize that moments, simple, observed moments, are calling out to be written about.
jouissance,
chipotles in the chocolate. Consider the
uvular awakenings
Your name spun through the reel, wound up from the bass
of me. How I want to say it, and hear my own, again.
for Matthew”
music: “Ashed to Air” by Gautam Srikishan]
I read this poem because it so immediately appealed to me with gorgeous words. I mean, I love the word “delicious.” I love the word “gorgeous.” I love the word “knuckle.” But I think this poem is a poem perhaps where the poet, Vievee Francis, was thinking, “What are my favorite words?” And she might have made a list. I’m just guessing, so it could be totally wrong. But it feels like, to me, that the prompt or the intuition or idea behind this poem is that she might have made a list of some of her favorite words and then thought, “Let me put them into a poem.” And I just thought that was such a delightful thing to do, and I found myself immediately thinking, what words would I write, if I was to write a poem fille
Youngstown-born poet Ross Gay won the 2021 Jean Stein Book Award and its $75,000 cash prize.
Gay, who moved to the Philadelphia area at a young age, won the award for “Be Holding, A Poem,” which was published in 2020 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. It is described as a book-length poem and homage to basketball legend Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers. It weaves in cultural and historical references, zooming in for a close look at Erving and back out to all of the forces that made the basketball legend possible.
Gay is a professor at Indiana University and returned to Youngstown two years ago as a guest of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts.
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