Ep 32: Poets Without Poems, ft. Sam Riviere

NB: For some reason, I say “satired” instead of “satirized.” In my defense, it had been a long week, and I was feeling pretty satired.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Sam Riviere’s book Dead Souls

– Sam’s essay In Defense of Poetic Plagiarism

– Sam’s book Kim Kardashian’s Marriage

– Sam’s poem D.F.W.

– Gogol’s book Dead Souls

– Thomas Bernhard

– Kent Johnson

– Andrew W. K.

– Kanye West

– Plato’s Ion

– Louise Gluck’s (Learned my lesson, no umlaut this time!) book Proofs & Theories

– The Cambridge School

– The downfall of Don Share

– Flarf

– Noor Hindi’s poem Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying

– Paul Elie’s article How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?

– Eliot’s essay Tradition and the Individual Talent

– Nicholson Baker’s book The Anthologist (The audiobook is read by Baker himself and is a real treat.)

– The Movement

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