Round 35

Yusef: "When the Towers Fell" by Galway Kinnell

Bob: "'Broken world' (for James Assatly)" by Joseph Lease

Kinnell's poem is a valiant attempt to describe the 9/11 disaster. I wanted to dislike this poem, but I have to admit many readers will be deeply moved by it. Lease's subtle elegy for his friend James Assatly is the better poem, giving the round to Bob.

After 35:

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