Talking About "The Hundredfold"
Anthony Esolen on How and Why to Read Poetry
This week for Anthony Esolen Speaks we are sharing an interview I did for The Kyle Heimann Show to talk about my own book-length poem, “The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord” — how I came to write it and why and how to approach reading poetry at all. We’d love to get this poem to a wider audience, so we do hope you might give “The Hundredfold” a try, or perhaps give it as a gift this season. And stay tuned: during Lent I’ll be doing readings of some of the dramatic monologues here at Word & Song, and possibly through another venue.
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My husband and I read this whole book out loud as part of evening prayer after it came out. Wonderful work.