Elisa New, host of ‘Poetry in America,’ talks to Erik Pedersen of The Book Pages about the new season of the PBS series.
Host Elisa New and John Turturro discuss Martín Espada’s poem “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper” in Season 4 of PBS’s “Poetry in America.” Elisa New, host of the PBS series “Poetry in America.”PoetryinAmerica.org
“I think that any activity we engage in that allows us to encounter tension and resistance and survive it is good for our brains and our hearts,” says New. Host Elisa New and Terrance Hayes discusses the poem “Steps” in Season 4 of PBS’s “Poetry in America.” New says this season looks at the ways in which American poets help define the values and vision of America. The contributors provide a range of intelligent and interesting voices – from country singer and ice-cream maker to student poets and a former Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Breyer.Wallace Stevens’s “The Emperor of Ice Cream,”
“It was all his stuff, including his desk. I own that, too. I need to give it to somebody,” says New, who hopes to find an institution to take the items. “Stevens is a really great poet, but he would not be my favorite person in the world. And so I have a lot of ambivalence about sitting at his desk in his chair.”
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