I sometimes like to ask musicians who sing folk songs “What is the oldest song you play?” As a...
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I sometimes like to ask musicians who sing folk songs “What is the oldest song you play?” As a...
04:18
Back when I was kid there was something we were taught to be concerned about, our “vocation.”...
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Today in the United States is Independence Day, a day celebrated with summer cookouts and...
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With today’s episode, we’ve reached the 100th official episode of the Parlando Project, where we...
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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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Here’s one more piece from Ezra Pound’s 1915 breakthrough collection “Cathay,” a war story he...
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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 Have Fallen in Love with American Names
Anyone remember those sentry questions that would be used in to determine if some straggler in...
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It’s now a commonplace to note how divided the United States is politically. The way the story is...
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Here is one more war poem from WWI, this one by another soldier poet, Wilfred Owen. Beside...
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She Is Sleeping on the Boundaries of the Night
I said I would change things up last time, and by stepping back a few years, today’s episode does...
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I promise you, we will end up today very close to the love song of the last episode, though we...
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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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This is an elegy, not a love poem, but then an elegy is a love poem that replaces the focus...
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How faithful should a translation be? I can hear your first answer even over the silence of the...
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Last episode used my best effort at a faithful translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Dark...
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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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Summer Songs and Poems - Part Deux
William Blake, Jah Wobble, Counting Crows, William Wordsworth, Dylan Thomas, Richard Burton and...
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There are so many ways to introduce the words used in this piece. I could say it’s an OG rap...
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