Stephanie Burt Reads Killarney Clary for Paris Review's New Series, 'Poets on Couches'

The Paris Review's new video series, "Poets on Couches," kicks off with a broadcast directly from Stephanie Burt's home to yours. "These readings bring intimacy into our spaces of isolation, both through the affinity of poetry and through the warmth of being able to speak to each other across the distances," say the editors.

In this video, Burt reads Killarney Clary's "Untitled [There are more of us]." An excerpt:

I am very lucky but that’s not life. And maybe no more than any person born in any year, I want but don’t know what, feel unsettled in a sea of similarly restless faces. The breadth of possibility makes choosing seem evasive. We decide but we are slow and small with doubts.

It was 1954 when my parents moved to have room for me. I remember a box my mother packed for me to store at school, filled with canned milk and soup and Hershey bars.

Two thousand good nights. My checked uniform on a hook. My face to the hall light because that felt like a day in the sun. Not fear, not loneliness, but my preference for sleeping near the window and near the floor, humming.

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