Ep 162: The Train There’s No Getting Off, ft. Derek Mong
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– When the Earth Flies into the Sun by Derek Mong
– There by Christopher Childers
– I Too Had a Childhood by Eleanor Stanford
– One of two poems of mine in the new 32 Poems
– The part in Tree of Life where (among other things) Jessica Chastain flies
– Marjorie Perloff’s review of The Birthday Letters
– The Two Ariels: The (Re)making of the Sylvia Plath Canon by Marjorie Perloff
– Ariel by Sylvia Plath
– Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
– Pike by Ted Hughes
– Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
– Daddy by Sylvia Plath
– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
– Nick and the Candlestick by Sylvia Plath
– A Secret by Sylvia Plath
– You’re by Sylvia Plath
– Swoop by Hailey Leithauser
– Transformations by Anne Sexton
– Life Studies by Robert Lowell
– Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
– Wintering by Sylvia Plath
– A rough approximation of a store in my town
– Purdah by Sylvia Plath
– Sheep in Fog by Sylvia Plath
– Honey’s Dead by The Jesus and Mary Chain
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