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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460487" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0026 Listening to a reading by Robert Hass</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are so many different postures<br>that may be adopted while listening<br>to a poetry reading especially<br>one that’s being filmed -<br>different tilts of neck and head, <br>some natural, some chosen<br>to suit the occasion; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it’s the panelled reading-room of Berkeley – <br>lecture desk, a couple of sofas, <br>inappropriately satin-striped for library use; <br>various chairs; November mid-day Bay Area sunlight<br>filters through the high windows, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the room’s comfortably full, a number<br>at the poet’s feet, mostly younger girls<br>and a boy whose clothes say poet; <br>but just outside the door, pressing in<br>like the background crowd in an 'important' <br>Renaissance painting, a horde it seems; <br>some fire or other precautions have<br>kept them out, as would <br>the prissy warnings that precede the video, <br>that adult themes and language<br>will be used, and<br>‘viewer discretion is advised’…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Zack Rogow who has introduced the poet<br>sits back relaxed – he's done a good and generous job; <br>some sit as if they’re on screen all the time - which they are; <br>some sit as if ‘I’m just here with him…’; <br>the girl on the floor looks at her companion<br>after each poem as if for validation<br>of some frail cultural bond or fragile claim; <br>some look as if they’re older faculty wives<br>attending more a social occasion, except that<br>the one who doesn't like a poet - is a poet; <br>one girl's got a note-book and a dreamy look -<br>she's gleaning seeds for her own poems; <br>that girl with the perfectly chosen spectacle frames<br>assesses the speaker 'coolly'; <br>a girl at the back tilts her head<br>as if already practising for the time<br>in forty years when she’ll be a wealthy patron of the arts<br>who can afford to be close to culture<br>yet detached – she paid for it…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the man who’s reading to us with a smile<br>twisted with humour and affection and humanity<br>in a face lined with the challenge of the inexpressible<br>is radiantly, the happiest human being in the room<br>and - his eyes say too - loves them all and individually, <br>just above, or just below, his love of words and speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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different tilts of neck and head, 
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