Back in April for Poetry Month, Bill Murray was asked to share his favorite poems for Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine. Murray chose Lucille Clifton’s “What the Mirror Said” as one of his four favorite poems for the article.
On his show, Jimmy Kimmel asked Murray to read Clifton’s poem. But before he did, Murray said: “Her stuff’s unbelievable, it’s just incredible… And that one’s beautiful [What the Mirror Said] but then when I started reading her book, I was just blasted by it. It’s really something.”
And he’s right!
Here’s the link to him reading on the Kimmel Show.
And below is Murray reading “What the Mirror Said” at the 20th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge, June 8, 2015. (Part of the PBS NewsHour segment on Poets House, broadcast December 15, 2015) and posted at poetshouse.org
What the Mirror Said
listen,
you a wonder.
you a city
of a woman.
you got a geography
of your own.
listen,
woman,
you not a noplace
anonymous
girl;
mister with his hands on you
he got his hands on
some
damn
body!
— Lucille Clifton
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