Ep 91: We’re Dying, Mate

NB: I twice, inexplicably claim that the name “Sestius” doesn’t appear in David Ferry’s translation of Horace i.4. It obviously does.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Hyperbole by Belinda Rule

– Pam Brown

– Ken Bolton

– John Forbes

– Louise Gluck

– The Sewanee Review

– Good poet and editor Eric Smith

– Sick Leave

– Harry Reid

– Mitch Hedberg

– Steven Wright

– William Logan

– Alice’s conversation with Harry Reid

– Horace ii.14

– Horace i.6

– Horace iv.2

– Horace i.4

– Alice’s fantastic two-part John Forbes Episode

– The Odes of Horace trans. David Ferry

– The Essential Horace trans. Burton Raffel

– Death, an Ode by John Forbes

– The David Ferry interview in Literary Matters

– Death Be Not Proud by John Donne

– Andrew Zawacki

– Brian Henry

– A. E. Housman

– Philip Larkin

– A. E. Stallings

– Alan Shapiro

– Shane McCrae

– Joshua Mehigan

– Ethan McGuire

– Ryan Wilson

– Jonathan Farmer

– Pindar

– Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

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