David Lehman Reads John Ashbery

By
Kevin Young
The New Yorker: Poetry | Dec 20, 2017

David Lehman joins Kevin Young to read and discuss John Ashbery's Poem "Worsening Situation," and his own poem "Stages on Life's Way."

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