Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Great Regulars: Listen for how she compares herself

to the popular girl, the way she talks about her own mouth compared to the mouth of Inez, the girl she wants to be. And then listen for what happens at the end of the poem. In BT Shaw's poems, there's always a shift in awareness and this one is I think quite striking by the end of the poem. So here's BT Shaw reading "No. 2 Venus".

from B.T. Shaw: KUOW: B.T. Shaw, Job Fair and What Have You Found?

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