BONUS: Not a Poetry Person, ft. Anna Backer
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Cincinnati School of Music
– Mark Twain: sad, wise riverboat captain
– Emily Leithauser: sad, wise poet
– Alain de Botton’s book The Architecture of Happiness
– Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
– Development vs. structure :: Beethoven vs. Bach
– Liszt’s Étude no. 3, Un sospiro
– Poetry appreciation class
– Serious amateur art
– Poetry is weirdly personal
– From-the-heart-ness
– Yeats’ poem “Adam’s Curse”
– Prodigiousness and precocity
– The David is top-heavy
– The live version of Radiohead’s song “Like Spinning Plates”
– Schubert’s Piano Sonata No 21 D 960 B flat major
– Carson McCullers’ novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
– Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116
– John Donne’s poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
