Sawyer, Larry 2014

Thursday, December 11, 2014
with Tyler Mills and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
Chicago Cultural Center

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Upstart cartoon morning;
these various roosters scratch inside the eyelids
and declare beneath the streetlamps that their
moats are filled with vowels.

– Larry Sawyer, “Sundial”

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Listen to Larry Sawyer’s 2014 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago, with Tyler Mills and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas:

Larry Sawyer begins at 16:25 minutes. 

The pentagon is a drop of amber
In which is preserved the animal mind

– Larry Sawyer, “A Cold Hand Draws the Covers Over the Moon”

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