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b'\\u201cIt sounds like a simple thing say what you see,\\u201d Mark Doty has written. \\u201cBut try to find the words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning." In this hour, we\\u2019ll take refuge in the sensory experience found in some contemporary poets, as a way of thinking about a number of questions: How does description contain or convey meaning? What do we do when we describe something? Reproduce, account for, portray, trace, parcel out? How does one take the measure of the external world and what can it mean for our writing?'