Report #61

This week's Report features the poem "The River" by Mary Oliver from her collection Dream Work (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986), her follow-up to American Primitive, for which she won the Pulitzer. The poem begins with this blurb from the New York Times (which I didn't read for the recording): "In one day the Amazon discharges into the Atlantic the equivalent of New York City's water supply for nine years." Though I imagine NYC is doing its best to catch up.

The music for this week was definitely jumping the gun, as we gone back to mornings of new snow on the mountainsides. It's "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess, here performed by Artie Shaw. Wishful thinking on my part.

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Report #61