Charles Simic reads Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Sestina"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGwq8RcWXw4
Here, Charles Simic—one of the other great twentieth-century English language poets—reads Bishop's "Sestina" out loud. Hearing the work read out loud offers a chance to experience the effects of the sestina's repetitions more viscerally. Simic also gives a brief summary of and contextual note on the poem prior to reading it, providing additional interpretation and explication.
