Michelle Whittaker: Sound and Story
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Michelle Whittaker presents recordings of poems that display their writers\\u2019 skill with both narrative and sound as they each consider the body as a site of conflict and grace. Whittaker considers the way Robert Hass employs sound to communicate strong emotion (\\u201cA Story About the Body\\u201d), connects with Ellen Bryant Voigt\\u2019s memories of seeing a family member\\u2019s scars (\\u201cLesson\\u201d), and celebrates Michael S. Harper\\u2019s reflective pairing of narrative tension and cycling sounds (\\u201cThe Borning Room\\u201d). To close, Whittaker reads her poem \\u201cIn the Afterlight,\\u201d itself a complexly layered composition of sound and image.\\xa0
Listen to the full recordings of Hass, Voigt, and Harper reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Robert Hass (1984)
Ellen Bryant Voigt (2003)
Michael S. Harper (1973)