Michelle Whittaker: Sound and Story

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Michelle Whittaker presents recordings of poems that display their writers’ skill with both narrative and sound as they each consider the body as a site of conflict and grace. Whittaker considers the way Robert Hass employs sound to communicate strong emotion (“A Story About the Body”), connects with Ellen Bryant Voigt’s memories of seeing a family member’s scars (“Lesson”), and celebrates Michael S. Harper’s reflective pairing of narrative tension and cycling sounds (“The Borning Room”). To close, Whittaker reads her poem “In the Afterlight,” itself a complexly layered composition of sound and image.

Listen to the full recordings of Hass, Voigt, and Harper reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Robert Hass (1984)
Ellen Bryant Voigt (2003)
Michael S. Harper (1973)

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Robert Hass' "A Story About the Body" (00:01:06)

3. Ellen Bryant Voigt's "Lesson" (00:05:41)

4. Michael S. Harper's "The Borning Room" (00:10:08)

5. Michelle Whittaker reads "In the Afterlight" (00:14:59)

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