Read By: Catherine Barnett

<p>Catherine Barnett on her selections:</p> <p>Because there are so many texts I love and because of the radical adjustments we’ve had to make in the space-time continuum, I chose to curate a small collection of poems and prose excerpts, each of which takes notice of, or is somehow guided by, time. I’ve included the following poems and excerpts; a collection I’m calling “On the Specious Present and the So-Called Obvious Past.”</p> <p><a href= "https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48410/days-56d229a0c0c33">Philip Larkin, "Days"</a></p> <p><a href= "https://groveatlantic.com/book/stories-and-texts-for-nothing/">From Samuel Beckett's "Texts for Nothing, #3"</a></p> <p><a href= "http://www.gaspereau.com/bookInfo.php?AID=0&AISBN=9781554471959"> Dominique Bechard, "Half a Party"</a></p> <p>Gwendolyn Brooks, "An Aspect of Love: Alive in the Fire and Ice"</p> <p><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Surrealism-Anthology-Michael-Benedikt/dp/0316088978"> Guillaume Apollinaire, “There Is” or "Il y a"</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/claudia-rankine-weather-poem-coronavirus.html"> Claudia Rankine, "Weather"</a></p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/ways-of-seeing/9780140135152">John Berger, from "Paul Strand"</a></p> <p><a href="https://poets.org/poem/stop-stop">Saskia Hamilton, “On. On. Stop. Stop.”</a></p> <p>Wislawa Szymborska, "May 16, 1973"</p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life/9780399589102"> Yiyun Li, from "Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life"</a></p> <p><a href="https://poets.org/poem/love-5">Jean Valentine, “For Love”</a></p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/the-galleons-poems/9781571315236">Rick Barot, “The Galleons 4”</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/05/storm-ellen-bryant-voigt"> Ellen Bryant Voigt, “Storm"</a></p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/paul-celan-70-poems/9780892554249">Paul Celan, "So many constellations" (trans. Michael Hamburger)</a><