Telyric (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrei Codrescu
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Television or television broadcasting, Baseball, Sports, Reporting or reporters, Telecommunication
The Poem
In thirty-four lines the narrator of “Telyric” describes being prepared for an outdoor television presentation. A television performer, the narrator is clearly poet Andrei Codrescu himself. Elsewhere, Codrescu has explained that he wrote the poem while working on a documentary about baseball for a Minneapolis television station.
In the poem a “professional TV person” tells the narrator where to stand and shields him from the sun with a “silver shield”—presumably a metallic umbrella, such as is used for reflecting sunlight in outdoor shooting. The...
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