Ep 31: Poetry+, ft. Jonathan Farmer
NB: Yes, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” is only kind of Mozart. Whatever. Also, yes, I over-hyped the length of this episode, since I ended up doing another edit after recording the intro and outro and got it down to a more reasonable length. Also whatever.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poet, critic, and editor Jonathan Farmer
– Jonathan’s essay “The Way We Talk About Poetry Is the Problem”
– Jonathan’s essay “When I Mean I”
– Alan Shapiro’s book “That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration”
– The new Dune
– Albert Camus’ book “The Myth of Sisyphus”
– Matthew Zapruder’s book “Why Poetry”
– Craig Morgan Teicher’s book “We Begin in Gladness”
– Stephanie Burt’s book “Don’t Read Poetry”
– Descriptivism vs. Prescriptivism
– George Herbert’s poem “Jordan I”
– Plato’s “Republic”
– Christopher Marlowe’s play “Doctor Faustus”
– Thomas Wyatt’s poem “Whoso List to Hunt”
– Paul Giamatti’s pinot noir monologue in “Sideways”
– C. S. Lewis’ book “Mere Christianity”
– Philip K. Dick’s theory of kipple
– Sarah Vap
– Stephen King’s book “The Gunslinger”
– Wayne Miller’s essay “When Talking About Poetry Online Goes Very Wrong”
– Philip Larkin’s poem “Aubade”
– Randall Jarrell’s poem “90 North”
– Maggie Nelson’s book “The Argonauts”
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
