It’s national poetry month, so I don’t feel too bad about writing three “Black Ocean” posts, but I promise I’ll move on soon. Zachary Schomburg’s The Man Suit arrived in the mail yesterday and it is that brilliant book of poetry I have been waiting for since, oh, Ariel Dorfman’s brilliant post-9/11 book, In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land. Which came out in 2002.

In a strange convergence of good playwright and good poet, here is Harold Pinter reading Dorfman’s “Last Will and Testament.” As someone recently pointed out to me, it is kind of unsettling to hear someone read a poem after you have heard it in your head so many times.

Then again, maybe it is not so strange, since Dorfman is a playwright as well.