Ep 17: A Poem-Shaped Void
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Making the Cut
– Placebo poems
– Maya Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Woman”
– Housman’s poem “Here dead lie we because we did not choose”
– More Shashi Bhat!
– Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage
– Tertullian’s condemnation of rock ‘n’ roll
– The entertainingly merciless review of Woodstock 99 on a recent episode of Struggle Session
– The very bad definition of ‘corniness’ on a recent episode of Very Bad Wizards
– Plato’s exclusion of TV and the internet from his ideal city
– Tall, friendly men Jonathan Farmer and Ryan Wilson
– A smart, critical email I got from Andrew Palmer about my treatment of Ben Lerner’s poem “The Lights”
– Andrew Palmer’s novel The Bachelor
– Me on Brian Platzer on me on him on the sublime
– Smart and good poet/editor Armen Davoudian
– Elizabeth Bishop’s clairvoyant citation of Alan Shapiro’s book That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration
– Some encouragement to ignore all the dumb stuff I say, like, for example, “Pronunciation doesn’t matter”
– Michael Robbins’ review of Postmodern American Poetry
– Smart and good poet/editor Eric Smith
– Eliot’s essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
– James Wright’s poem “St. Judas”
– Shane McCrae’s poem “Jim Limber on Continuity in Heaven”
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Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
