Love Song for a Woman I Do Not Love
One joy of this project’s exploration has been coming upon poets I know nothing about and...
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Podcasts de modernism
I’m continually a few days behind in the past month or so, what with Winter holidays and other...
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William Carlos Williams' Thursday
How many poems celebrate a poet's dreams? This one doesn't. Here I perform Williams' poem with...
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Let us return to that April epic of high-church Modernism. T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” Long...
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils)
It may be U. S. National Poetry Month, but one can’t deny the impact that English poets have had...
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Letters to Dead Imagists and A Pact
A few episodes ago I dropped a performance of Walt Whitman’s “Poets to Come,” a piece where...
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St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils
Metaphor, that stuff that helps make the music of thought in poetry, is the linking or liking of...
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Readers of these notes may recall a discussion of the theory that Emily Dickinson’s reclusive...
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Sometime around the end of the 19th Century, a century that had seen accelerating change in...
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Returning now to our discussion of Modernism, that early 20th Century artistic movement that gave...
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The lives, outside of art, of artists bear only a mysterious resemblance to their work. The...
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Last episode I presented Ezra Pound’s rant about the society that lead so many to their deaths in...
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Today’s episode “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” has a very complicated history. I can’t...
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Just after the start of the 20th Century two teenagers met at the University of Pennsylvania. One...
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On the Troop Ship to Gallipoli
In the notes to the past few episodes I’ve mentioned how Ezra Pound was more than an exemplary...
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I’m going to ask you to not read these notes yet. Listen to today’s audio piece first at least...
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Imagine this for the background and education for a poet. The poet is committed from a young age...
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Today’s piece uses a very short poem about a famous doomed adventurer written by a too-little...
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I return today to the work of pioneering English modernist poet T. E. Hulme, he of the entire...
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I was talking with my wife this weekend. She’s reading a memoir about current military...
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