Our hosts, but mostly Maq, discuss the art of poetry, the general terribleness of Ezra Pound, and the fact that Poetry is Good, Actually.
Maq chose a lot of poems for today's episode; below are some links from her show notes, including some poems we didn't get around to discussing but are worth reading nonetheless.
Reading List:
Canto 2 from “Hang it all, Robert Browning” to the Greek. 11 lines only, that’s all we need to hate him. Found here: https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/poetry/canto-ii-pound/poem-text and here.
From 2001, Alan Dugan’s Love Song: I & Thou
From 1989, Haizi’s Looking out to sea, warmed by the spring air
From 2010, Traci Brimhall’s Concerning Cuttlefish and Ugolino
Let’s do a sonnet! From 1997, William Meredith’s The Illiterate
Rania Kapoor’s (2016) The Introvert’s Banter
Edwin Arlington Robinson’s (1914) Eros Turranos
Why I Haven’t Told You Yet by Emi Mahmoud
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts (1954) by Wallace Stevens
I Go Out on a Road Alone by Mikhail Lermentov
Love One Another by Khalil Gibran
Exeter Book Poem/Riddle 44 (approx 975)
The Hallmark Poem aka Easter Wings by George Herbert (only to complain about how shitty people existed even in the 17th century)
Neil Hilborn’s OCD
John Donne's The Flea, The Canonization, The Ecstasy, Satire III
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