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Hi. amelia island.com. Hi, you're listening to the New Yorker Poetry Podcast.

I'm Kevin Young, poetry editor of the New Yorker magazine.

On this program, we invite a poet to select a poem from the New Yorker Archive to read

and discuss.

Then, they read one of their own

poems that's been published in the magazine. Today, my guest is Monica Farrell. She is the author

of a novel and three books of poetry, including You Darling Thing, a finalist for the

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her new collection, The Future, was published in March by Four Way Books.

She was born in New Delhi and lives in Vermont.

Monica, welcome. Thanks for joining me.

Thanks, Kevin. It's great to be here.

I'm so happy to have you.

The first poem we've chosen to read is Caramore by Lucy Brock Broido.

What was it about this particular poem that caught your attention when you were looking through the archive?

I think this poem is so mysterious, and it kind of puts us in touch with the great mysteries of the human condition and kind of walks us through them.

It's a memento mori. It's a pilgrimage. On a personal note, I've kind of walks us through them. It's a memento mori. It's a pilgrimage. On a personal note,

I've kind of grown up with this poem because Lucy Brockbredo is my teacher. I've read this poem

innumerable times. And it actually has a lot to do with my own enduring obsessions.

Oh, I'm so eager to hear it. Why don't we listen to the poem?

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