Marie Ponsot
Marie Ponsot is one of America's most esteemed poets and recipient of the 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her most recent collection is the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Easy (Knopf, 2009). Except as noted, excerpts are from her poems.
In which Marie Ponsot tells David St.-Lascaux about the good world, the utility of idleness, language and fable, the sacred, the doing of things, and the pleasure principle of life.