Sharon Olds reads the poem "A Supermarket in California" by Allen Ginsberg from the book "Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud" edited by Robert Pinsky.
Filmed at McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan on March 30, 2009.
http://poemsoutloud.net
She is dear indeed. She once came to my school when I was an English/Creative Writing undergrad, at our esteemed Poetry Center. She really livened up the reading with her earthy honesty, but her images stick in the belly and womb more than the heart and mind, IMHO.
HerAeolianHarp 3 months ago
could she be any dearer to us?
smithsrfun 2 years ago