Tue, 22 May 2007 John Irving reading poems about flying helicopters and fighting in Viet Nam including Elephants in Viet Nam, The Map, his environmental poem The Death of a Thousand Wounds and his pagan poem What If God Were a Woman? He also reads his motorcycle poetry including Landscape Rushing and I Hate Harleys! These are interspersed with Christine Irving reading poems from her book Be-A-Teller-of-Tales and poems of a spiritual and pagan nature including Elephant Totem, Coyote, Apples at Midnight, and Nettie's Lament. She also reads a number of her story poems including The House on Treat Avenue, Epistle From an Ephesian Harlot, and the wonderful How My Father Met Josephine Baker in 1942 While Scouring the Casbah for Eggs. |