Sunday, February 26, 2012

William J. Harris reads "Nobody Wants to Write an Elegy" English & Italian

William J. Harris: "Nobody Wants to Write an Elegy"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytavbCJvcG4
This link leads to YouTube version--with Italian translation by Nicola Manupelli. Stanley Lombardo reads the Italian at this Feb. 23, 2012 reading at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas. Harris's introduction references Kevin Young's elegy for his father. The poem is from a new bilingual book CROONERS by Harris and Manupelli.