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Read this essay and poem on Substack!  Topics discussed include:  -Poets as actual legislators -Alexander Solzhenitsyn -"The Great Terror" by Robert Conquest -The Movement redux -"The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant -The epistemological turn -Hyper-Apollonianism as con…

Read this essay on Substack! Order my new chapbook here!  Topics discussed in this episode include: -Frost Farm and the new generation of metricians  -The Necklace of Harmonia and Against Oblivion -The musical caesura -"Uriel" by Ralph Waldo Emerson -Ouroboros, yin-yang thinking -"Di…

Read the essay here! -"L'Envoi" by Herman Melville -"Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century" by Melville -"Clarel" by Melville -"Moby-Dick" by Melville -"The Maldive Shark" by Melville -"The Confidence Man" by Melville -…

Mea culpa: Sorry for the confusion-- of course I DID end up giving a recap of my adventures.  Read this essay on Substack! -Travel details mentioned: the Haar, Alfred Janniot, the Musee Branly, the museums in Nancy, Spinoza's homes -Friends mentioned: Cameron Clark, David Klug, Niall Campbell…

Read this essay (and see the poems) on Substack! Poems discussed: "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson "In the Desert" by Herman Melville (my Melville essay) "Lucifer in Starlight" by George Meredith "Cold-Blooded Creatures" by Elinor Wylie "The Animals&…

Read this essay at The Sonneteer!  Sonnet types discussed: The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCD The Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCD The English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG The French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGF The Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC, CDCD, EE The Miltonic: Italian, with enjambment, delayed volta, and non-courtly/…

-Read this essay on Substack!  -What is meter? -10 Reasons to write in meter -Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic) -Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach, Dactyl) -“Junk” by Richard Wilbur -“Considering the Snail” by Thom Gunn -KJV Psalm 2…

Read this essay on Substack! Topics discussed: -Disco Demolition Night -Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death"  -See Matthew's great episode on the above -Alice's essay, "On Fear" -My essay, "The Iron Lyre" -The Sleerickets episode "This Was Poetry&q…

-Read the poems on my Substack! -If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it -Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom -Al Ma’arri -Afzaladdin -Moses Ibn Ezra -Sehnsucht -Ibn Iyad -Manjik -Dick Davis -Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas” -Proto-Imagism -My long road to appreciating haiku -Zen…