New video: further discussion of Armantrout’s “The Way”

Over the years ModPo people have spent a good deal of time pondering how to read Rae Armantrout’s “The Way.” Almost everyone deems it to be the most difficult poem on the week 2 syllabus. But that, its admirers say, is what makes it so worthy of the Dickinsonian tradition: one can read and read and read it, and still find it to be open to understanding. At the recent live webcast for week 2, ModPo ’18, we yet again discussed the poem, and here is the result: