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Date:
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April 5, 2001 |
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Location:
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The Unitarian Center |
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Length:
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Tape Quality:
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good |
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Collection
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American Poetry Archives |
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Language:
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English |
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Use Policy:
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available |
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Content:
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Poet and teacher Elizabeth Willis reads poems from her
publications to date, as well a generous selection from works-in-progress.
She opens with "Envoy" from Second Law. From The Human Abstract, she then
reads "The Life of the Spider." From the manuscript Turneresque, a long
poem drawing on both the Age of the Victorians and the film holdings of
Ted Turner, she reads from the sections "Modern Painters" and "Elegy"
such titles as "The Tree of Personal Effort," "The Young Blake," "Tarzan
the Ape Man," and "Kiss Me Deadly." She concludes the reading with poems
from an untitled manuscript inspired by Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden.
Steve Dickison introduces Willis and the co-reader, Mark McMorris.
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