"In the hermetic almost dark / under the fluorescent dizz / I found her broken nerves..." In this video, Peter Balakian gives a reading at the Colgate Writers' Conference in 2009. Balakian is the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his collection Ozone Journal (University of Chicago, 2015).
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