Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop and Thom Gunn
Colm Tóibín unpacks the work of Elizabeth Bishop and Thom Gunn, and the relationship between the poets, with help from recordings from the archive of 92nd Street Y in New York.
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New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature for 80 years, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary artists of the 20th century and recording for posterity their appearances as part of its vast audio archive.
Tóibín is joined by Bernard Schwartz, who produces 92Y's Reading Series as director of its Unterberg Poetry Center.
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Thom Gunn was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley when I was an undergrad. I had him for a full term one spring - he was electric and very kind. This was one class I never missed.
I agree i could listen to Tobin all day
Support great poets and these program$. More than ever, 21st century needs great words. Best lesson in history of our world there is..poets!
Colm Toibin seems lovely.
Didn't realize there was such depth in Bishop's poems. Will read them
The show is a treat. I heard Thom Gunn read at UC Berkeley in '81, invited in by Carolyn Kizer. SF was a mad place then. Female executives didn't want to come to SF because of an apparent dirth of straight boys. I was recovering from a smashed leg from a work accident and not realizing I had PTSD and was pretty out of it. Gunn's poems were just about the best thing to do, other than go down Pacific Avenue to Van Ness for chamber music on Fridays and Sundays.
Absolutely amazing! Thanks for all the tidbits of info and your great sense of humor!
Wonderful! Great stories. Bishop is precise, brilliant, edgy and funny.
Good work lads. Thanks LRB,
Tóibín in the best !! He is so erudite....with a sense of humour. The other fellow is so dry and earnest.
Extraordinary to think that she wrote two poems/prose piece a year.
Haven't a clue if she is on a trip or had twilight sleep.
Refreshing to hear how Bishop and Gunn had no interest in over-emoting. I find it reassuring.
Toibin makes it all so colourful and interesting. The other chap...does not. He is merely competitive...taking himself too seriously.
@loriscunado3607
3 жыл бұрын
The other man was great too
@valpergalit
4 ай бұрын
Strongly disagree.