Rather than choosing three short poems that teach us something about a theme, Isaac, Sean, and Anastasia allow one long poem, "The Undressing" by Li-Young Lee, to teach them a few things... http://aprweb.org/poems/the-undressing

Black Box Poetry

Long Poem: "The Undressing" by Li-Young Lee

Anastasia Nikolis, Isaac Wheeler, and Sean C. Hughes started talking about poetry a decade ago at Haverford College and never stopped. Now they talk about poems they love and explain how they work to each other and their podcast audience. Black Box (n.): A device which performs intricate functions but whose internal mechanism may not readily be inspected or understood; any component of a system specified only in terms of the relationship between inputs and outputs. Black Box Poetry (n.): A podcast which performs intricate functions to explain a poem's internal mechanisms that may not readily be inspected or understood; poetry elucidation machine.

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