"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem
each episode.
Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby
delivers
an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest
about poetry and
memory. In the second act, she presents the episode's poem, as read by her guest, in a
special format
designed to work as a roadmap to learning it by heart.
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"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem
each episode.
Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby
delivers
an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest
about poetry and
memory. In the second act, she presents the episode's poem, as read by her guest, in a
special format
designed to work as a roadmap to learning it by heart.
In this episode, Abby interviews Jos Kley, former singer of the long running Dutch punk band The Ex. Together, they present the poem "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. Recitation begins at 35:08.
One Art The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
A Lovely Wallpaper
"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem
each episode.
Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby
delivers
an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest
about poetry and
memory. In the second act, she presents the episode's poem, as read by her guest, in a
special format
designed to work as a roadmap to learning it by heart.
