A Message and a Poem

The LRB Podcast

London Review of Books

Society & Culture

4.4 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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This week's discussion, with Laleh Khalili, will be out on Thursday. In the meantime, here's Jorie Graham reading her latest poem for the LRB, 'One the Last Day'. Find more readings of poems and pieces here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/lrb-readings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the London Review of Books podcast. This week's conversation with Lali Kalili
0:05.2	about her review of General Stanley McChrystal's business self-help manual is delayed until Thursday,
0:11.1	the 24th of February, because Professor Kalili is among the staff at 68 universities who are currently
0:16.5	on strike over plans to gut their pensions and deteriorating pay in working conditions.
0:21.6	In the meantime, we have a reading by Jory Graham of her poem on the Last Day from our 10th of February issue.
0:27.6	You can find lots more readings of poems and pieces from the LRB Archive on the readings page of our website.
0:32.6	Click on the link below.
0:35.6	On the last day, I left the protection of my plan and my thinking.
0:45.1	I let myself go.
0:48.3	Is this hope, I thought?
0:51.5	Light fled.
0:53.3	We have a world to lose, I thought. Light fled. We have a world to lose, I thought.
0:57.2	Summer fled.
0:59.0	The waters rose.
1:01.3	How do I organize myself now?
1:05.3	How do I find sufficient ignorance?
1:09.7	How do I not summarize anything? Is this mystery, this deceptively complex
1:19.4	lack of design? No sum towards which to strive? No general truth? None? How do I go without accuracy?
1:35.8	How do I go without industry? No north or south? What shall I disrupt? How find the narrowness, the rare ineffable
1:50.1	narrowness, far below numbers, through and behind alphabets and their hiving, swarming,
2:03.0	here, these letters.
2:11.3	I lean forward looking for the anecdote, which leads me closer to the nothing.
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