Graham, Jorie 2001
One’s nakedness is very slow.
One calls to it, one wastes one’s sympathy.
Comparison, too, is very slow.
Where is the past?
– Jorie Graham, “Evolution”
Broadside of “Evolution” by Jorie Graham.
Listen to Jorie Graham’s 2001 reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago:
Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Billy Collins, Andrei Codrescu, Ron Padgett, Lucille Clifton, Mark Perlberg, Li-Young Lee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Ted Kooser, Paul Carroll, Jorie Graham, and Paul Hoover.
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Here’s where I lower you
into the drizzle
of the visible,
my eager one,
where I hold you out like a gift
to this water, out at the end of my hand, to steady you,
– Jorie Graham, “Mirror Prayer”
Watch Jorie Graham read her work for the 92Y Readings:
Jorie Graham: Selected Poems | 92Y Readings
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