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Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.
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every 16 days
Average audio length:
31 minutes
English
United States
129 episodes
since Sept. 19, 2022
episodic
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Read the poem and this essay on Substack!
Links discussed in this episode include:
-New Literary Matters is out!
-My poem in LM: "Freud Dreams of Egypt"
-My poems in The Deronda Review: "The Kabbalist" and "Modeh Ani"
-My poem in The Sonneteer: "After Poe"…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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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…
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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…
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-"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…
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