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1993. Introduced by Toi Derricotte.
These two poets captive their audience with this remarkable reading--inviting them, as Toi Derricotte states in her introduction about Sharon Olds, into that "primary shining source, called the soul," and showing them, as Derricotte says of Komunyakaa, "what it is to be human."
Komunyakaa reads masterfully from Dien Cai Dau and his 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Neon Vernacular, and Olds, in that style uniquely her own, reads recent poems and selections from her widely acclaimed books.
Length: 67 min.
Track List
1. Introduction by Toi Derricotte
2. Venus's-flytraps
3. The Smokehouse
4. Blackberries
5. Ode to the Maggot
6. You and I Are Disappearing
7. Prisoners
8. Thanks
9. Baking Potatoes
10. Yellow Jackets
11. My Father's Love Letters
12. Believing in Iron
13. More Girl Than Boy
14. Charmed
15. Letter to Bob Kaufman
16. Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel
17. Slam, Dunk & Hook
18. Introduction to "To Have Danced with Death"
19. To Have Danced with Death
20. Camouflaging the Chimera
21. Tu Do Street
22. A Break from the Bush
23. Facing It
24. Introduction by Toi Derricotte
25. Introduction to "The Missing Boy"
26. The Missing Boy
27. The Pope’s Penis
28. Introduction to "Last Words"
29. Last Words
30. Introduction to "The Ferryer"
31. The Ferryer
32. More Blessed
33. Epilogue to "More Blessed"
34. Sunday Night
35. First Weeks
36. The Fetus in the Voting Booth
37. Workshop Night
38. Aspic and Buttermilk
39. To a Reader who Wrote to Me, I too Am an Incest Survivor
40. The Wedding Vow
41. The Untangling
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