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WORDS ON A WIRE: Ilyse Kusnetz (extended)

 

  

  In a rebroadcast from Jan. 25, 2015, Daniel talks with Ilyse Kusnetz, winner of the 2014 T.S. Eliot prize for her poetry collection, "Small Hours."  Ilyse talks about why history and historical figures play a major part in the collection, how her early love of science fiction interweaves with her sense of history.  Her works also tackle injustice, oppression, and the fear of technology.  In this online-only expanded interview, Ilyse talks about entering her collection in contests while also looking for publishers...social protest poetry...and quantum mechanics.

http://ilysekusnetz.com/

Aired Aug. 9, 2015.

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