Word: overlord
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...OVERLORD By Jorie Graham...
Tuesday, March 8. Jorie Graham reads from Overlord: Poems. 6:30 p.m., Harvard Bookstore. Admission free...
...Harvard’s foremost poets, the esteemed writer appeared nervous, slightly fidgety and out of breath, explained as a result of the presence of many colleagues and friends. While clutching her necklace, she dove headlong into reading six poems of her intensely personal and most recent book, Overlord...
Graham addressed the limitations of reading from her book, a collection of poems mainly located on Omaha Beach, the site of Operation Overlord, beginning the so-called liberation of Europe by Allied forces during World War II. First issuing a disclaimer to audience members to not read along, as she tended to make mistakes, Graham also confessed that these words were not meant to be read from a podium. She had not even intended for them to become poems...
...creation was made evident, but the saturation of ideas was largely inaccessible upon first hearing. It was hard not to become enraptured with Graham’s prayer, as her voice is so compelling and forceful, yet to understand her personal catechism, it is likely necessary to actually read Overlord...