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Podcast: Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws

Episode: Episode 34: Theodore Roethke’s The Waking

Description: Boy it’s a challenge to talk about form and rhythm schemes! At any rate, here’s a reading by the poet himself, me nattering and then reciting it too. One of the most mysterious villanelles. Last elegy in the section on Recovery (loathe that word!) in The Art of Losing.

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