The Island: Name Written but Unpronounced
Speaking of reading "Sirocco"…
In none of the recordings of Robert Penn Warren that I have heard (from MIT's Vault and from the Caedmon Poetry Collection) does the poet pronounce the name of the island he has written in his poem — he simple says "the island".
But there it is in the Collected Poems.
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And so for day 1773
21.10.2011