Laurie Sheck: 13 Poems from "The Willow Grove"
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An episode from 1/31/21: The American writer Laurie Sheck (born 1953) was the first poet that I read extensively from on Human Voices Wake Us. Her 1996 book, The Willow Grove, remains one of the best single collections of poetry I\\u2019ve ever read, especially where Sheck remembers her childhood, learning to read, first going to museums, and so much else. And for someone like me, for whom the mystique and power of driving and listening to the radio (or podcasts, now) is so intense, a poem like \\u201cHeadlights\\u201d sums up years of my life.
\\nThe entire book feels like one long poem, and even the thirteen poems here, when heard together, have the wholeness of a continuous story:
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- The Stockroom \\n
- Living Color \\n
- from the Book of Persephone, \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0pt. 4 \\n
- Learning to Read \\n
- Mummy \\n
- Morning Walk \\n
- Sycamore \\n
- The Leper Colony \\n
- View of the Asylum Garden \\n
- Headlights \\n
- Streets \\n
- Cypresses \\n
- Sea \\n
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