Human Voices Wake Us: Recent Episodes
Human Voices Wake Us
The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.
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An episode from 6/18/24: This is the seventh in a series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. I continue with Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass. Previous readings from Whitman biographies are here.
Tonight, Zweig discusses the nature of Whitman's notebooks and journals up through the 1855 publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The necessity Whitman felt, even in his notebooks, for addressing a public audience, and the influence of prose (Carlye, Emerson, the King James Bible) on his revolutionary poetry, all offer great insight into how Whitman was able to achieve what he did.
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An episode from 06/06/2024: Tonight, I share two stories from the Shoah, or Holocaust.
The first is about the Sonderkommando, those prisoners forced to do the most devastating work in the concentration camps. During a 2015 Fresh Air interview with László Nemes and Géza Röhrig about their 2015 film, Son of Saul, a brief story about an actual Sonderkommando member is told. It remains one of the most overwhelming minutes that I have ever heard.
In the second part, I read from Daniel Mendelsohn’s 2006 book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. The book is Mendelsohn’s attempt to discover what happened to six members of his family who were murdered in the Holocaust, and the section I read from is about the difficulty of truly entering the mind and situation of a sixteen year-old girl, who is rounded up with a thousand other Jews, and murdered.
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An episode from 5/20/24: Tonight, after a long hiatus, we return to Norse myth with the story of Sigurd’s killing of the dragon, Fafnir. Couched in a much longer narrative that contains shape-shifting, war, revenge, brief appearances by Odin and Loki, and finally Sigurd’s ability to hear the language of birds and animals, it is a brilliant and vivid example of storytelling in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
I read from the two great sources of the story, the Volsung Saga (in the Jesse Byock translation) and Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda (in the Anthony Faulkes translation). I also discuss the history of the story, and its reworking in the Nibelungenlied, and Wagnerian opera.
Listen to the other Great Myths here.
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An episode from 4/17/24: Tonight, I read a handful of poems on modern life—whatever “modern” might mean in words spanning the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. In many of the poems we hear the complaint of every age, that “the world has never been so bad.” In others, descriptions of the suburbs are enough, or of car culture, or of how we get our news or even begin to live with stories of atrocity and war. Some poems ask us to pay attention to the work and details of everyday life, others wonder if we shouldn’t look to past poets for wisdom and guidance. If a “modern” mindset means anything, it seems to mean proliferation and flux, a sense of not being settled. The poems I read are:
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), “In Goya’s greatest scenes”
- Kathleen Jamie (1962- ), “The Way We Live”
- Laurie Sheck (1953- ), “Headlights”
- Derek Mahon (1941-2020), “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”
- Ted Kooser (1939- ), “Late February”
- Philip Larkin (1922-1985), “Here”
- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), “New Mexican Mountain”
- T. E. Hulme (1883-1917), “Image”
- Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950), “Editor Whedon”
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892), “The blab of the pave”
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850), “London 1802”
- Mary Robinson (1758-1800), “A London Summer Morning”
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), “A Description of the Morning”
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), “The queen, my lord, is dead”
- R. S. Thomas (1913-2000), “Suddenly”
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An episode from 4/3/24: Tonight, I interview the poet, novelist, and translator, Amit Majmudar. You can find a full list of his books here, but we spend most of our time talking about his 2018 translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Godsong. Along the way, we also get his take on many of the preoccupations of this podcast: how a life devoted to creativity, religion, family, and an awareness of history and tradition can still be maintained in this strange time of ours.
His book recommendations at the end are:
- John D. Smith’s abridged translation of the Mahabharata
- S. Radhakrishnan's translation of the principal Upanishads
- The Princeton edition of the Ramayana
- Roberto Calasso’s Ardor
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In the first part of tonight's episode, I read from Peter Robb's M, a biography of the painter Caravaggio (1571-1610). Through a discussion of two of his paintings which depict decapitation, we can understand how, in Caravaggio's early career, he was able to paint directly from life; but when he went on the run to escape a charge of murder, he depended instead upon his memory.
In the second part, I read from the father of history, Herodotus (c. 484-c. 425 BCE), and his description of royal the burial rites of the "barbarian" Scythians, who lived in the area of the Black Sea. The translation and essays I read are from the Landmark Herodotus, edited by Robert B. Strassler.
In the last part, I play a section of a talk given by Ian McKellen on the "Tomorrow and tomorrow" speech from Macbeth. You can find the clip on YouTube here.
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In the first part of tonight’s episode, I read from Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, & the Search for Identity, where Solomon talks about musical prodigies and the difficulties they face as children and adults.
In the second part, I read one of the most powerful pieces of poetry to come out of the ancient world, God’s response to Job, from the Hebrew Bible. Nowhere else is the terror and mystery of human suffering more deeply expressed, and God’s response to it remains a confounding and sublime performance. The translation is by Raymond Scheindlin.
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Tonight, I read ten essential poems from one of the great and most public poets of the last seventy years, Seamus Heaney (1939-2013). It isn’t hard to come by details of Heaney’s life, but Stepping Stones (where Heaney is interviewed at length in what amounts to an autobiography), is a good place to start. His poems are collected in 100 Poems, and in the individual collections.
There are many ways to look at Heaney’s work, and the ten poems I choose only present one picture: a poet as at home on the farm as he was at Harvard; as interested in literary history as in archaeology and the deep interior of the Irish imagination; as concerned with childhood, memory, and family as with the darkest aspects of human life. In introducing these poems, I reflect on Heaney’s importance in my own life, and the huge impact his death had on me, ten years ago this month.
The poems I read are:
- Personal Helicon (Death of a Naturalist, 1966)
- The Forge and Bogland (Door into the Dark, 1969)
- The Tollund Man (Wintering Out, 1972)
- The Strand at Lough Beg (Field Work, 1979)
- Squarings #2, #8, #40 (Seeing Things, 1991)
- from his translations of Beowulf (1999)
- Uncoupled (Human Chain, 2010)
The episode ends with Heaney's reading of "The Tollund Man."
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What makes a story or prayer or poem last? What circumstances can lead one monarch to order the execution of another? And why, over the past twenty years, was Mary Oliver the best-selling poet in America? Tonight's episode is another three-parter:
- In the first part, I read from one of the great scholars of the Hebrew Bible in our time, James Kugel. I focus on a passage from his How to Read the Bible, and his summary of the variety of meanings that the twenty-third Psalm have inspired since it was first written. He asks how we judge the validity of any interpretation.
- In the second part, I read from Peter Ackroyd's Tudors, on the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).
- In the third part, I read three poems from the American poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019). They can all be found in her career-spanning selection, Devotions: "White Owl Flies into and Out of the Field," "Wild Geese," and "Snow Moon - Black Bear Gives Birth."
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Tonight, we look into libraries and learning:
- In the first part, I read from Jonathan Bate’s biography of Shakespeare, Soul of the Age. Based on Shakespeare’s education and the evidence of the plays, Bate gives a thorough guess as to the essential twenty or thirty books that the Bard might have had on his shelf.
- In the second part, I read from Serge Sauneron’s Priests of Ancient Egypt. Here, Sauneron talks about the libraries—called “Houses of Life”—attached to Egyptian temples, as well as the scribal and priestly culture that produced Egypt’s various religious texts.
- Finally, I read the poem “Alphabets,” by Seamus Heaney, from his 1987 book, The Haw Lantern. I also read my favorite poem of Heaney’s, Squarings #2, from 1991’s Seeing Things. Both poems combined Heaney’s earliest memories of education with those of manual labor, measuring, and building.
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Tonight, we hear from cities under siege:
- In the first part, I read from the Roman historian Livy’s account of the sack of Rome by the Gauls in 387 BCE. The translation is by T. J. Luce.
- In the second part, I read from the diary of the French art historian Agnès Humbert, who lived in Paris during the first months of the German occupation in World War Two, and who was involved in some of the earliest resistance activities in France.
- Finally, I read a small section of William Blake’s long poem, Milton, where his personal mythology is given free reign over the city of London.
The music I play in the introduction, from Ludwig Goranson’s score to the movie Oppenheimer, can be found here.
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Tonight's episode looks in on history, creativity, and mourning from three different angles:
In the first part, we hear scattered remarks from Bruce Springsteen over the years, about his low-fi and haunting 1982 album, Nebraska. It is remarkable how the album was made by Springsteen, alone in his bedroom, with a cheap recorder. For someone who bridges and so seamlessly combines music of the fifties, sixties and seventies, Nebraska sounds nearly timeless.
In the second part, I read a small section from Simon Schama's 1995 book, Landscape and Memory. Here, he talks about not just his own Jewish ancestry, who hailed from the woods and forests of Ruthenia (on the border between today's Poland and Lithuania), but also about the fate of one Polish village's Jewish population, during and following World War Two.
In the third part, I read from book 24 of Homer's Iliad, translated by Richmond Lattimore. In one of the most moving scenes anywhere in Homer's epics, Priam, the king of Troy, pays a visit to Achilles, the greatest warrior on the Greek side. Achilles has only recently killed Priam's son, Hector, in battle, and the old man comes to Achilles for beg for his son's body back, so that he can be given a proper funeral and burial.
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Tonight, I read a few dozen quotations from the scientists, politicians, and military figures who were instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, and in the final decision to drop it on Japan in August of 1945. The most prominent voices here are those of Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow physicists, whose dedication and excitement to develop the bomb was matched only by their misgivings (though rarely their outright regret) in the years after World War Two.
While I previously dedicated four long episodes to the subject, I tried here to isolate the most vivid quotations, and the most difficult ideas, into one episode. The sources I drew on for this episode are:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds, by Peter Goodchild.
- John Else’s documentary, The Day After Trinity, can be watched here.
- John Bradley’s anthology of poets writing about the bomb is Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Atomic Age.
- My poem about Robert Oppenheimer can be read here.
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Tonight, I read from two great writers on the history of the sea. The first is an excerpt from Rachel Carson's (1907-1964) The Sea Around Us, on the deep history of the sea, and the beginnings of all life within it. Next is an excerpt from archaeologist Barry Cunliffe's Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples, where he illustrates all the strategies and passed-down knowledge—of winds, tides, currents, landmarks, marine life, etc.—that sailors in prehistoric Europe would have utilized to travel on the ocean.
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Tonight, I talk about writing my long poem, To the House of the Sun, published in 2015. The poem follows an Irish immigrant making his way through the American South, North and West, during the Civil War. The book is part travelogue, battle epic, and spiritual biography, and after describing how the book was written, I read one of my favorite sections from late in the poem, where the protagonist finds himself as a kind of shaman and religious figure, wandering the West.
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Tonight, I read from three books that have been important lately in the writing of my long poem, The Great Year. First is the entry on Weaving from Taschen’s Book of Symbols; next, from Michael Pye’s The Edge of the World, is the story of the city of Domburg, in the Netherlands, and the tremendous archaeological finds that storms and the shifting North Sea have revealed there, over the centuries; and last, from Mircea Eliade’s Patterns in Comparative Religion, are a few remarks on the religious significance which farming once held, in premodern agricultural societies.
The question I ask, about the spiritual significance once given to what now appear to be straightforward, practical—and even machine-dominated—tasks, is to wonder what aspects of our everyday lives can be made sacred in the same way? Is this possible any more?
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Tonight, I read from James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough, and the accounts he collected on the midsummer fire festivals in premodern Europe. I also discuss the relevance of these stories to a long poem-in-progress of mine, The Great Year, as well as my own adventures in acquiring all thirteen volumes of Frazer’s great work.
The sections I read from all appear in the first volume of Balder the Beautiful, and searching through this .pdf, it should be easy to find any of the stories I chose. The entirety of The Golden Bough can be downloaded here.
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Tonight, I'm thrilled to read a poem that I began working on three years ago on the life, teachings, and mysticism of the Greek philosopher, Pythagoras (c. 570- c.495 BCE). I am also thrilled that the poem is being simultaneously published at The Basilisk Tree. Many thanks to its editor, Bryan Helton, for coordinating all of this with me.
For anyone who wants to look closer at the earliest Classical accounts of Pythagoras, his life, and his teachings, check out: The History of Greek Philosophy Volume 1: The Earlier Presocractics and the Pythagoreans, by W. K. C. Guthrie, and The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library, ed. Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie.
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What can the Poetic and Prose Eddas, the Icelandic sagas, and skaldic poetry tell us about the most important god in the Norse pantheon, Odin? Tonight, I devote an entire episode to Odin’s many masks: as poet and shaman, as god of death and war, and as the perfect embodiment of the world as the Norse knew it, filled with brutality and betrayal. The episode is divided into three sections:
- (about 5:37) On Odin and poetry; a reading of the most famous stanzas from the Havamal, and the story of Odin’s theft of the Mead of Poetry
- (about 58:07) On Odin and warfare, death
- (about 1:22:06) What archeology, and classical and medieval historians, can tell us about Odin
The nonfiction books I rely on for most of this episode are E. O. G. Turville-Petre’s Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia, Rudolf Simek’s Dictionary of Northern Mythology, and John Lindow’s Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals & Beliefs.
The translations I read from are: Andy Orchard’s translation of the Poetic Edda, Anthony Faulkes’s and Jesse Byock’s translations of the Prose Edda, and Lee M. Hollander’s translation of the Heimskringla.
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Tonight’s episode is a response to those wonderful lines from William Carlos Williams: “It is ridiculous what airs we put on to seem profound, while our hearts gasp dying for want of love.” If these lines have the ring of truth, what aspects of our lives have we built up so meticulously, when all we really want is love? In my own life, I ask if perhaps poetry, writing—and even this podcast—fall into that category, and wonder if it’s all worth it.
The music used for the intro is Pink Floyd's "Is There Anybody Out There?"
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What can the stories of the early lives of famous people teach us about our own upbringing, all the details nobody would know if they aren’t told to someone? Tonight, I read from the scattered remarks of John, Paul, George, and Ringo that are found at the beginning of the huge hardcover book The Beatles Anthology, and which cover their childhoods and the years before The Beatles became famous. As you listen, ask yourself how your own childhood might be summarized and collected from anecdotes like these.
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In 2020, the Irish historian and biographer R. F. Foster published a wonderful and brief book, On Seamus Heaney. It is a great introduction to Heaney, and tonight I read my favorite passages from it. The book spans his entire career, and his lifelong preoccupations with history, violence, family, and mythology.
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Since a lingering cold is keeping me from recording a new episode, I thought to replay my favorite section from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. Perhaps only in another poem of his, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, do we get such a powerful and compressed example of Whitman’s sympathy and empathy; his mysticism and earthiness; his love for the world and the present moment, and his deep awareness of history and the future. In a strange way, we are never more alone than when reading or hearing Whitman, but somehow we are also never in better company.
This episode was first broadcast on 9/13/2021. The best of Whitman’s long poems can be found in the volume I edited, Selected Long Poems.
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Why should we continue to read the poetry of William Wordsworth? Tonight’s episode is devoted to Jonathan Bate’s biography, Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World, where he more than answers the question. For me, anyone who cares about poetry devoted to nature, introspection, and autobiography, can still learn the most from Wordsworth. And his concerns—the necessity of emotion and plain language in poetry, the belief that we have no greater story to tell than our own, and his love for the natural world—are as contemporary as anything on the news.
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Around the year 1509, Leonardo da Vinci began his great anatomical work, dissecting upwards of thirty human bodies and making drawings of what he saw. Tonight’s episode is a poem about that experience – all that was isolating, exhilarating, gruesome, beautiful. How did Leonardo go past art, and past science, in search of something stranger, human, divine?
The poem is also being published simultaneously in the first issue of The Basilisk Tree. Many thanks to its editor, Bryan Helton (who is also a great poet himself), for taking the poem. Make sure to take a look at the other poems, and perhaps submit some of your own.
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Tonight, I return to new episodes with a handful of poems about the spring. As I mention, living as I do in a city usually inundated with snow, it has been bizarre to have not shoveled the driveway even once. And since the next few weeks of episodes are already planned out, it seemed appropriate to get to spring early, since the earth is doing that already. The poems are:
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), “There is another sky”
- e. e. cummings (1894-1962), “O sweet spontaneous”
- Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), “This Fevers Me”
- Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), from “Toward an Organic Philosophy”
- Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from “The Tributary Seasons”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), “Spring” (“To what purpose, April, do you return again?”
- Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), “The Old Yellow Shop”
- Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), from “Wild Peaches”
- Henry King (1592-1669), “A Contemplation upon Flowers”
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Act 3 of King Lear
- Ted Hughes (1930-1998), “Four March Watercolours”
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An episode from 3/22/22: Soon after this podcast started, a listener wrote in and just asked me to talk about my favorite bookstores. But my mind approaches bookstores the same way it approaches childhood, and so it's the earliest ones that made the deepest impression: the first Waldenbooks where I understood what a brand new hardcover was, where I first chose to go to books instead of video game magazines, or where (this being a mall in the early nineties), I first saw where bookstores stood, alongside toy stores and Foot Locker. Fast forward to late high school, and the story of me buying Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, on a Friday night when everybody else (that's how it felt, anyway) was at a high school football game, feels like the origin of so many things.
Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.comwith your own bookstore stories. I'd love to make a future episode out of them.
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While Human Voices Wake Us is still on hiatus, I wanted to play this episode from the archive, to celebrate the official release of my book of essays, Notes from the Grid.
Get your copy here.
Tonight's episode is a reading of the last essay in the book, "All Its Ways." You can hear the other episodes from the book, that I recorded last summer, here.
If this episode speaks to you in any way, please consider buying the book, or sharing it with anyone who might be interested. I’ve never put more of myself into anything, even my poetry. I doubt that writing a hundred pages will ever take so long again, or contain so much.
I started the book back in 2006, sitting at a Kinko’s in Corona, California. It has followed me everywhere since then, into the world of marriage and fatherhood, from Ohio to Brooklyn and now to Pittsburgh, and from the strange land of my mid-twenties and into my forties. I can hardly believe it's done.
Here are only a few of the questions the book asks:
What if we rediscovered our own privacy, our own hidden life, a place where our opinions and ideas didn’t need to be constantly proclaimed, seen, and approved?
What if we understood that the only real problem is meaning, and where we choose to find it or create it?
What if we sensed that none of our categories or attempts at identity can completely represent or explain us? What if we accepted our own complexity?
What if we were taught that the world cannot be perfected, that irregularity cannot be overcome, that ambiguity cannot be ironed out? What if we found ways to live in a difficult and uncertain world, instead of being overwhelmed by its imperfections?
What if we reconsidered what all of this could mean for how we live with culture and religion, education and technology, and how we view the past and live in the present?
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Tonight I read a handful of poems on the theme of How to live, what to do? How to get by in the world as a devotee of culture, solitude, ritual, beauty, tradition and individuality?
There is of course no one answer, and anyway, poetry should stay as far away from direct “advice,” or proscription of any kind. Still, when I sit back and think about the kind of poems that help me through the day – and the months, and the years – these are some of them. Let me know the poems you rely on in this way: send me a message at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
As I also mention, after this episode I’ll be taking a break from Human Voices Wake Us for at least a month. The best way to support the podcast is to preorder my book Notes from the Grid(coming out February 23), or check out any of my other books: To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, Bone Antler Stone
The poems I read are:
- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), How to Live What to Do
- Galway Kinnell (1927-2014), Tillamook Journal
- Edith Nesbit (1858-1924), Things That Matter
- Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), #2 from Lightenings
- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), Joy
- Louise Glück (1943-), Summer Night
- W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), A Prayer on Going into My House
- Emily Brontë (1818-1848), “Often rebuked, yet always back returning”
- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695), Man
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Tonight I ask the question: what is love, and what is love poetry? Are poems about family and friendship love poems, just as much as those about romantic feeling, and longing, and heartbreak?
And even more: what is romantic love? What, for instance, did T. S. Eliot mean when he said, “Love is most nearly itself/When here and now cease to matter,” or when Emily Dickinson wrote of “Wild nights”?
The poems I read are:
- Ted Hughes (1930-1998), Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days
- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), Bouquet of Belle Scavoir
- Katherine, Lady Dyer (c.1585-1654), Epitaph on Sir William Dyer
- Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861), #43& #44in Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), #7from In Memoriam
- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), Dover Beach
- Ruth Pitter (1897-1992), But for Lust
- Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001), One Flesh
- Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), #3 in Clearances
- Louise Glück (1943-), Brown Circle
- Eavan Boland (1944-2020), The Necessity for Irony
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892), To a Stranger
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Wild Nights
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Tonight we hear from two great writers of fiction, Charles Dickens and Alice Munro.
Through a handful of readings from Claire Tomalin’s Charles Dickens: A Life, we see how Dickens (1812-1870) was able to juggle, for almost a year, the writing of two novels simultaneously, both for serial publication. Thanks to a letter written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who visited Dickens in London in 1862, we also hear Dickens speaking privately in a way that he rarely did publicly, admitting that his villains were better reflections of himself than his more lovable and generous characters. We also answer the question: what do David Copperfield and Jane Eyre have in common?
From the introduction to her Selected Stories, Alice Munro (born in 1931, and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize) describes how, as a homemaker, she came to writing short stories very nearly by necessity. She also discusses how she set her first attempts at fiction in faraway, historical, or Brontë-inspired surroundings, and only later came to see the artistic potential of her own backyard, in the Lake Huron region of Canada.
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For this first episode of 2023, I read a handful of voices from those living in Europe and the United States between 1900 and 1914. Rephrased only slightly, nearly all of their concerns feel like they could appear in the news or on the street today:
- There’s worry over the spread of new technology and how it perhaps cheapens everyday life
- There’s deep paranoia over changes in previously stable gender roles
- There’s a desperate need to find a grand solution to all of our problems—in this case, in the embrace of eugenics
- And there is, on the one hand, an immense faith that “progress” of all kinds will wipe away things like poverty, war, or religion; while, on the other hand, there is such an overriding feeling of powerlessness in the face of science, culture, and rapid change, that many feared the collapse of civilization altogether
I read these voices here to suggest that the feelings of emergency, then and now, are perhaps misplaced. What is actually going on, alongside all the dread? What can we learn from these voices that sound so much like our own, and what will people look back on 2023 learn for themselves?
Each of these quotations can be found in Philipp Blom’s wonderful book, The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914.
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How did the Viking Norse tell a story as important as Ragnarok (the end of the world) in poetry, and then in prose? What does prose require that poetry does not, and vice-versa, and especially when the accounts we have are separated by centuries of historical change, and religious conversion?
In this third episode on Norse Mythology, I read the story of Ragnarok from the Prose Edda (dating to c. 1220), and then its corresponding section in the poem Voluspa (c. 1000) in the Poetic Edda. Each section is preceded by the story of the death of Odin's son, Balder, which in many ways precipitated Ragnarok. I also read from a later poem, Balder's Dreams (c. 1300).
The translation of the Poetic Edda (and Balder's Dreams) that I read from is by Andy Orchard, and the Prose Edda by Anthony Faulkes. The commentary I read from throughout the episode comes from the translation and commentary by Ursula Dronke.
The essential reference books on Norse myth that I will be using for this series are John Lindow’s Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals & Beliefs, Rudolf Simek’s Dictionary of Northern Mythology, and Andy Orchard’s Cassell Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend.
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Tonight, I read eleven essential poems from the American poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). His poems can be found in The Collected Poems Volume I: 1909-1939, The Collected Poems Volume II: 1939-1962, and Paterson.
The biographies I read from are Paul Mariani’s William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, and the essay on Williams’ life at The Poetry Foundation.
The poems I read are:
- Pastoral (1917)
- Danse Russe (1917)
- Waiting (1921)
- The Great Figure (1921)
- The Red Wheelbarrow (1923)
- Flowers by the Sea (first version) (1931)
- War, the Destroyer! (1942)
- Approach to a City (1946)
- To a Dog Injured in the Street (1954)
- Deep Religious Faith (1954)
- from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (1955)
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Tonight, we enter into the early years of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), from his birth in the village of Zundert in the Netherlands, to his time in the Borinage mining region of Belgium. It was there, at the age of twenty-seven—and after years of personal and professional failures—that he hit bottom … and suddenly realized he was an artist.
In the first half of the episode, I read from Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith’s biography, Van Gogh: The Life. The second half is devoted to a handful of letters Van Gogh wrote to his brother in 1879 and 1880, where he admits the humiliation of his failures, and then revels in his newfound passion for drawing and painting. The letters can be found online here.
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- What happens when two comedians lose all their confidence when they meet in an elevator?
- What is the happiest story you can think of (hint: it almost always comes from childhood)?
- What are the unfinished or untouched obsessions you’ve collected material for, but never gotten around to?
- How lucky was Shakespeare to have been born just at the time when the translation of Latin literature became all the rage in England?
- What do Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the French photographer Eugene Atget have in common… and are you, dear listener out there, an autodidact?
- How does it feel to be able to find a book, any book at all, much more easily than Richard Wagner could dream?
- And are you someone like William H. Macy in the movie Magnolia, who has “a lot of love to give?” And are you like Van Gogh, who knows he has a purpose, but can’t find it yet?
In other words, tonight is another edition of Give Me a Tarantula, a catch-all for every small idea that can’t fill an episode on their own.
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Tonight I read ten essential poems from the American poet, Robert Lowell (1917-1977). They can all be found in his Collected Poems. His letters are collected in The Letters of Robert Lowell, Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop & Robert Lowell, and The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle. It’s been a while, but I remember enjoying Paul Mariani’s Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell.
- · Memories of West Street & Lepke (from Life Studies, 1959)
- · The Public Garden (from For the Union Dead, 1964)
- · For the Union Dead (from For the Union Dead, 1964)
- · History (from History, 1973)
- · Bobby Delano (from History, 1973)
- · Anne Dick I. 1936 (from History, 1973)
- · For Robert Kennedy 1925-68 (from History, 1973)
- · Marriage? (Hospital II., part 4) (from The Dolphin, 1973)
- · Dolphin (from The Dolphin, 1973)
- · Epilogue (from Day by Day, 1977)
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Tonight I talking about creativity and wonder what actors and writers have in common. The springboard for much of what I say is Simon Callow’s article in the New York Review of Books, which itself is a review of Isaac Butler’s “history” of Method acting, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act.
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Tonight I talk about the nature of horror/true crime books and movies to ask: what makes a story truly frightening, instead of just entertaining? What kinds of movies or books, or ways of storytelling, take us beyond entertainment to true horror, to actual fear? How does the disturbing story of Ed Gein end up, filtered through convention and expectation, as “standard” (even if classic) movies like Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs?
Discussed along the way: Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, the new Netflix series on Jeffrey Dahmer, the movie The Exorcist, Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, the use of crime scene photos for advertising TV shows, and the unavoidable re-traumatization of victims and their families with each new show, book, movie (or, indeed, podcast).
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In this second episode on Norse Mythology, I read from the creation myths found in the poem, “Voluspa,” found in the Poetic Edda, and from its corresponding sections in the Prose Edda. I also read from commentaries on these sections.
The translation of the Poetic Edda that I read from is by Andy Orchard, and the Prose Edda by Anthony Faulkes. The commentary I read from on the Poetic Edda, for the last half hour of the episode, comes from the translation and commentary by Ursula Dronke.
The essential reference books on Norse myth that I will be using for this series are John Lindow’s Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals & Beliefs, Rudolf Simek’s Dictionary of Northern Mythology, and Andy Orchard’s Cassell Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend.
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Tonight I talk about a dear friend from my youth, who made a great impact on me into my early twenties. Along the way I read from Hermann Hesse’s Demian and Steppenwolf. The music that begins the episode is Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bookends Theme.”
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Tonight I read twelve essential poems from the British poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998). They can all be found in his Collected Poems (smaller selections of his poetry include Selected Poems 1957-1994 and A Ted Hughes Bestiary). In this episode I also read from The Letters of Ted Hughes.
The poems are:
- Wind (from the Hawk in the Rain, 1957)
- Six Young Men (from the Hawk in the Rain, 1957)
- Crow's Song About God (from Crow, 1970-71)
- “I skin the skin” (from Gaudete, 1977)
- A Green Mother (from Cave Birds, 1978)
- Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days (from Cave Birds, 1978)
- Cock-Crows (from Remains of Elmet, 1979)
- Rain (from Moortown Diary, 1979)
- February 17th (from Moortown Diary, 1979)
- Four March Watercolours (from River, 1983)
- October Salmon (from River, 1983)
- Life After Death (from Birthday Letters, 1998)
- This is followed by a reading Hughes gave of his poem, “October Salmon.”
Other episodes on Hughes include one where he discusses privacy for his family in the wake of Sylvia Plath’s posthumous fame; another where he discusses how he discovered poetry; and another, much longer episode of readings (4.5 hours) from Hughes’s poetry.
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Tonight I read ten essential poems from the American poet Robinson Jeffers (1187-1962). Selections of Jeffers’s poetry are legion: many of them can be found here. The five-volume Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers, edited by Tim Hunt and published by Stanford University Press, can be found here. You can read more about his life at the Poetry Foundationand Wikipedia. A larger selection of his poetry, which I recorded in 2020-2021, can be found here.
The poems I read are:
- The Excesses of God
- Point Joe
- Hooded Night
- New Mexican Mountain
- Nova
- from Hungerfield
- De Rerum Virtute
- Vulture
- “I am seventy-four years old and suddenly all my strength”
- Inscription for a Gravestone
The episode ends with a 1941 Library of Congress recording of Jeffers reading his poem, “Natural Music.”
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For the next year or more, my series on The Great Myths will focus on Norse mythology. Tonight I introduce the subject and read one of its foundational texts, the poem that starts the Poetic Edda, “Voluspa,” as translated by Andy Orchard.
The two translations of the Poetic Edda that I mention are those by Andy Orchard and Carolyn Larrington.
The two translations of the Prose Edda that I mention are those by Anthony Faulkes and Jesse Byock.
The essential reference books on Norse myth that I will be using for this series are John Lindow’s Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals & Beliefs, Rudolf Simek’s Dictionary of Northern Mythology, and Andy Orchard’s Cassell Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend.
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Tonight I spent an hour talking about Stephen King’s 1983 novel, Pet Sematary, which seems to me one of the great expressions of the anxieties of being a parent.
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Give Me a Tarantula:
- Old Norse & Old English
- Edward Hopper
- Five Going on Six
- Droning Sound
- Driving in Ohio
- Vermeer & Personal Nostalgia
- Dead Can Dance
- Primo Levi
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Tonight we leave the Celtic myths with an overview of The Great Myths #8-18 (which can be listened to here), and then read one final story, of Cuchulainn’s fight with Ferdiad, from Thomas Kinsella’s translation of the Táin bo Cúailnge.
The translations I have read from or referenced in these episodes include: Jeffrey Gantz, Early Irish Myths & Sagasand The Mabinogion; Thomas Kinsella, The Táin;Patrick Ford, The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales; Ann Dooley & Harry Roe, Tales of the Elders of Ireland; Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne; Kenneth Jackson, A Celtic Miscellany.
The nonfiction books I’ve relied on include: James MacKillop, Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology; Mark Williams, Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth; and the book/documentary series that got me started on it way back when: Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton’s In Search of Ancient Ireland.
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Tonight I go over Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy from Act 3 scene 1 of Hamlet. Throughout the episode I include the performance of this speech from modern actors: the first is by Paapa Essiedu, and the second by Andrew Scott. The very last, to give a sense of what the original pronunciation of the speech would have sounded like, is performed by Ben Crystal. A larger compilation of nine different versions can be found here, and a YouTube search provides even more.
The books read from in this episode are Ben and David Crystal’s Shakespeare’s Words: A Glossary and Language Companion, Marjorie Garber’s Shakespeare After All, and Peter Ackroyd’s Shakespeare: The Biography.
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A four-part episode on the atomic bomb, from its development to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and after, drawn from the words of those who were there. The full text of the quotations used here can be found in the blog versions of these podcasts.
The books used to make these episodes are:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds, by Peter Goodchild.
John Else's documentary, The Day After Trinity, can be watched here.
John Bradley's anthology of poets writing about the bomb is Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Atomic Age.
My poem about Robert Oppenheimer can be read here.
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Tonight I read from Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith’s Van Gogh: The Life, from 2012, sharing the sections covering Van Gogh’s two Starry Night paintings, and his many paintings of sunflowers.
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Tonight I read three sections from Jacques Barzun’s book From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life:
- The expedition of French scholars that followed Napoleon into Egypt
- (24: 18) The invention of the printed book, and what it meant to education and literacy
- (44:00) On the Salem Witch trials of 1692, and how closely science at the time was allied with superstition
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Tonight I read from Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. If any listeners can recommend other books about Dickinson they have enjoyed, email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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I’ve gone through my favorite interviews with the novelist Toni Morrison and put together my favorite bits. I’ve gathered them into these segments:
- (:35) On love (parental, romantic, religious)
- (8:25) On childhood, family history, and being a parent and a writer
- (43:32) On race, writing in difficult political and social moments, and being more interested in good than evil
- (1:11:48) On writing in general, and specifically the writing of Beloved
The interviews I’ve drawn from are these:
- Toni Morrison In Depth, on C-SPAN
- Toni Morrison on Charlie Rose in 1993, 1998, and 2015
- Toni Morrison, interviewed by Junot Diaz
- Toni Morrison interview by Farah Jasmine Griffin at the 92nd Street Y
- Toni Morrison on NPR’s Fresh Air: in 2015, and a Retrospective
- Toni Morrison on BBC’s World Book Club
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Tonight we get back to the Celtic myths, and take a detour from the stories themselves and into what the most recent scholarship has to say about them. The book I read from is Mark Williams’s Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth.
Previous episodes on Celtic Myth can be found here: https://wordandsilence.com/2022/03/23/the-great-myths-17-tales-of-the-elders-of-ireland-podcast/
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In tonight's episode, we hear from Seamus Heaney and James Joyce.
In the first part, I read Heaney’s responses to general questions about writing poetry: his methods, his inspiration, his favorite time of day to write. These come from Dennis O’Driscoll’s Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
In the second part (beginning at 35:15) I read James Joyce’s short story, “Araby.” The reading is prefaced by a few personal thoughts on Joyce, and includes an excerpt from Gabriel’s Yared’s score for the film The English Patient.
I previously discussed Michael Ondaatje’s novel, Anthony Minghella’s movie, and Yared’s music for the film, in an early episode, Rereading the English Patient.
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Tonight, I replay two of my favorite episodes from Human Voices Wake Us: from September of 2021, I talk for a moment about loneliness and creativity. The next segment (beginning at 36:00) is from July of 2021, where we hear more about creativity and living in the world, this time from Beethoven, Joseph Campbell, W. S. Merwin, and W. D. Snodgrass.
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Tonight, I read the last three essays from Notes from the Grid. After a short introduction, the eighth essay begins at 6:00, the ninth at 26:30, and the tenth at 54:40.
The audio from Philip Roth near the end of tonight's episode comes from Christopher Lydon's 2006 interview with him.
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For the next month or so, I will be reading a short book of essays, Notes from the Grid, that I have been writing since 2006. Tonight, I read the sixth and seventh (which begins at 20:30).
Spirit Murmur,the album of string quartet music I mention in the episode, composed by Alan Hovhaness and performed by the Shanghai Quartet, can be purchased here.
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For the next month or so, I will be reading a short book of essays, Notes from the Grid, that it has taken me the last sixteen years to complete. Tonight, I read the fifth and the sixth. Essay number six begins at 23:27.
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For the next month or so, I will be reading a short book of essays, Notes from the Grid, that it has taken me the last sixteen years to complete. Tonight, I read the third and fourth. The second essay begins at 28:28.
The excerpt I play from an interview with George Steiner comes from a 1996 episode of Desert Island Discs.
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For the next month or so, I will be reading a short book of essays, Notes from the Grid, that it has taken me the last sixteen years to complete. Tonight, I read the first two. Listen to the introduction, or click on the link above, to see how you can become a part of bringing the book into print.
After a short introduction, the first essay begins at 6:20, and the second begins at 30:22.
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A reading of my favorite of Walt Whitman’s "mystical" poems--that is, those poems where he found identification in every and every thing, and saw that as a kind of salvation for us all. All of the poems can be found in the two recent books I edited, The Selected Short Poems of Walt Whitman, and The Selected Long Poems of Walt Whitman. Please consider getting a copy of these books (they are only $3.99), if you enjoy what you hear in this episode.
Also included in this episode is (purportedly) the only known recording of Whitman, reading four lines from his poem “America” (at 54:39). For those who want to read an article about this recording, it can be downloaded here.
For those who would like to skip to his longer poems, see the list below and the timestamp for where to find them.
The poems I read are:
Short Poems:
- Selections from “Song of Myself”
- Assurances
- Earth, My Likeness
- Full of Life Now
- To a Common Prostitute
- Mother and Babe
- O Me! O Life!
- Sparkles from the Wheel
- To Thee Old Cause!
- A Clear Midnight
- From Montauk Point
- America
- L. of G.’s Purport
- Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Long Poems:
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1:08:00)
- Song of the Open Road (1:26:00)
- A Song of the Rolling Earth (1:48:53)
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A reading of my favorite of Walt Whitman’s poems about death. All of them can be found in the two recent books I edited, The Selected Short Poems of Walt Whitman, and The Selected Long Poems of Walt Whitman. Please consider getting a copy of these books (they are only $3.99), if you enjoy what you hear in this episode. For those who want to skip ahead to the section longer poems, which are some of Whitman’s greatest, it begins at 39:00.
The poems I read are:
Short Poems:
- Selections from “Song of Myself”
- The Compost
- I Sit and Look Out
- Scented Herbage of My Breast
- Of Him I Love Day and Night
- As the Time Draws Nigh
- So Long!
- Not Youth Pertains to Me
- Old War-Dreams
- As at Thy Portals Also Death
- A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
- As I Sit Writing Here
- Supplement Hours
Long Poems:
- The Sleepers
- As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
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A reading of my favorite of Walt Whitman’s love poems. All of them can be found in the two recent books I edited, The Selected Short Poems of Walt Whitman, and The Selected Long Poems of Walt Whitman. Please consider buying these books (they are only $3.99), if you enjoy what you hear in this episode.
Following these poems (at 1:06:57), I have inserted a reading from a previous episode on Whitman’s love and sex life, from Paul Zweig’s book, Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.
The poems I read are:
- Selections from “Song of Myself”
- To You
- Once I Pass’d through a Populous City
- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
- Calamus #8
- Calamus #9
- When I Heard at the Close of the Day
- To a Stranger
- When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
- Thou Reader
- I Sing the Body Electric
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Another two part episode:
In the first part, quotations on creativity come from Toni Morrison, Richard Wilbur, John Berryman, and T. S. Eliot.
In the second part (starting at 24:17), I read selections from Walt Whitman’s earliest reviewers. The full text of these reviews can be found in Gary Schmidgall’s Selected Poems of Walt Whitman. The two pocket books of Whitman's poetry that I mention at the end are The Selected Long Poemsand The Selected Short Poems.
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Another two part episode: in the first, I read five poems:
- Robert Lowell (1917-1977),“Bobby Delano”
- John Clare (1793-1864), “An Invite to Eternity”
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), “A Summer Evening’s Meditation”
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), “A Nocturnal Reverie”
- Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), from The Faerie Queen, Book 3, Canto 6
In the second (starting at 42:00), I read from Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings, and Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life. Both, in their own way, are about each writer’s earliest discovery of words. As with many First Person segments, come from the pages of Lapham’s Quarterly, one of the best collections of voices from history that I know.
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Another two part episode:
The first is a brief sequel to an episode from last September, called Loneliness. (You can listen to that episode here)
The second part (beginning at 19:19) is a reading from Peter Ackroyd’s biography of William Shakespeare—buy the book here.
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A reading of selections from The Tales of the Elders of Ireland(Acallam na Senórach). The translation I read from is that of Ann Dooley and Harry Roe.
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Another two-part episode:
The first part is a scattershot on Jane Goodall’s appearance in Gary Larson’s The Far Side; my daughter’s reaction to hearing The Beatles’ “Revolution 9” for the first time; and thinking again about what Joan Didion taught me about jealousy, and what Leon Wieseltier’s 1996 book, Kaddish, can add to it.
The second part (begins at 35:54) is a repeat from a 2/23/2021 episode, following the death of the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Here are two readings from Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs.
- Beverly Valentine, Funeral Home Director
- Jason Groth, Telemarketing Group Supervisor
Depending on the response, this might become a regular format for episodes going forward, putting two different episodes into one, simply for ease of listening.
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Tonight’s episode is split into two parts:
- In the first, I take up a listener’s request to talk about my memories of bookstores;
- In the second, I read from two recent books about Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. The books I read from are Simon Schama's The Power of Art and John Richardson's Life of Picasso, Volume 4: The Minotaur Years.
- The second part of the episode begins at 45:08.
Depending on the response, this might become a regular format for episodes going forward, putting two different episodes into one, simply for ease of listening.
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A return to a series of podcasts that I haven't done since last year, where I take a quotation from another writer/artist/etc. on creativity, and just talk about it. Today's quotes come from essayist/novelist, Joan Didion, the poets Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins, and the short story writer, Alice Munro.
Preceding this is a few minutes of talking about how important it seems to be for an artist to be associated with a certain place--Dickens with London, Robert Frost with New England, etc.
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A sequel of sorts to an episode from last year, called Jealousy. In this episode, I talk about more recent mutations of the kinds of jealousy I've felt towards other writers and creative people, and what to do about it.
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A reading of the Welsh story about the poet and seer, Taliesin, as found in the mid-sixteenth century Hanes Taliesin. The translation I use comes from Patrick K. Ford's The Mabinogi & Other Medieval Welsh Tales.
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A reading of five poems:
- Louise Bogan (1897-1970), “The Alchemist”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese #41 (“I thank all who have loved me in their hearts”)
- William Blake (1757-1827), from Milton(“I come in self-annihilation”), from Jerusalem(“Trembling I sit day and night”)
- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), “The Author to Her Book”
- Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695) “The Book”
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A reading of five poems:
- Eavan Boland, “The Making of An Irish Goddess”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, “That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection”
- William Wordsworth, “London, 1802”
- John Milton, ending to Paradise Lost
- Philip Sidney, “Loving in truth”
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A collection of all of Ted Hughes’s poetry that I have recorded and posted here over the past year. They can all be found in his Collected Poems (smaller selections of his poetry include Selected Poems 1957-1994 and A Ted Hughes Bestiary).
Rather than organizing my readings of Hughes’s poetry chronologically, I start with what seems to me his best poetry (and some of the best poetry in English, period)—that is, the poetry he published between 1970 and 1983. Only after these are his first three collections read from; the readings after that pick up his later career.
A full table of contents can be downloaded here (it is too large to paste into the episode description).
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A reading of T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem, The Waste Land.
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A reading from a handful of sections from Steven Mithen’s book The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science. (That book is an identical reissue to the one first published that I read, with a slightly different title, as The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art and Science).
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A reading of interviews with Seamus Heaney, on his discovery and growth into poetry from boyhood through university. As usual, these remarks come from Dennis O’Driscoll’s book-length collection of interviews with Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
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A reading of five poems:
- The Entertainment of War, by Roy Fisher (1930-2017)
- Danse Russe, by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- “The night is darkening round me,” by Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
- Work Without Hope, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Ode on Solitude, by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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A reading from great Irish love story, The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne (Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne), versions of which go back at least to the tenth century, details of which inspired the later Romance of Tristan and Isolt. The literary version read from here dates to 1651.
The text I read from is the translation by Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, was published as volume 48 in the Irish Texts Society, Main Series. The text of other translations can be found here. A summary is on Wiki here.
My essay on the boar can be found here.
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A reading from Seneca’s Letters to a Stoic, from c. AD 64; and from Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, from 1832.
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Rather than just reading a few poems here like usual, I take a few minutes to talk about a tweet that made waves in the “poetry community” on Twitter a few months ago. The tweet said, among other things, that “the general population has no interest in what we do,” and that a belief that poetry could be “powerful” is an illusory one. I don’t name the poet who wrote the tweet, or link to it here, because I don’t think it was meant to become so popular, and therefore mistaken as a “public pronouncement.”
Nevertheless, a version of this comment or complaint about poetry is repeated everyday somewhere, and it was worth responding to before reading the following poems:
- “Affinity,” by R. S. Thomas
- #1142, by Emily Dickinson
- Sonnet #27, by William Shakespeare
- from The Aeneid, Book 6, by Virgil (translated by Allen Mandelbaum)
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A repeat of an episode from 11/27/2020.
A reading from Studs Terkel’s book, American Dreams: Lost & Found. Here, Andy Johnson talks about his life in rural Minnesota at the turn of the twentieth century. The interview is also included in Terkel’s best-of volume, The Studs Terkel Reader.
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A reading of five poems:
- “New Heavens for Old,” by Amy Lowell
- “The Darkling Thrush,” by Thomas Hardy
- “The Winter Evening,” by William Cowper
- “Death be not proud,” by John Donne
- “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,”by Christopher Marlowe
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A reading of five poems from Ted Hughes’s last book, Birthday Letters(1998). This is the book where Hughes finally addressed his relationship to Sylvia Plath in verse, nearly forty years after her suicide; in my introduction to the poems, I also talk about the strange phenomenon both of audiences demanding such a confession over a private matter, and the weight that Hughes said was lifted from him, when he finally published the book. All of the poems can be found in his Collected Poems.
The poems are:
- A Pink Wool Knitted Dress
- You Hated Spain
- Drawing
- The Rabbit Catcher
- Life after Death
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A reading of five poems from five different poets. They are:
- “Minerva Jones,” by Edgar Lee Masters (from his Spoonriver Anthology)
- “Ulysses,” by Alfred Tennyson
- “A London Summer Morning,” by Mary Robinson
- “A Hymn to My God in a Night of my Late Sickness,” by Henry Wotton
- “The Lie,” by Walter Raleigh
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A reading of a handful of poems from Ted Hughes, published between 1986 and 1997. They can be found in his Collected Poems. They are:
Flowers & Insects (1986)
- Two Tortoiseshell Butterflies
- Sunstruck Foxglove
Uncollected (1987-1989)
- Devon Riviera
Wolfwatching (1989)
- For the Duration
- Take What You Want But Pay For It
Uncollected (1992-1987)
- Mother Tongue
Tales from Ovid (1997)
- Tereus
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A reading from my poem about Shakespeare, 1606. Born out of a podcast episode from earlier this year, it seemed appropriate to set aside an entire episode, moths later, to share what the poem has become. If you enjoy what you hear, please consider sharing it with others; and as it is still a work in progress, email me with any reactions or suggestions for improvement: humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of eleven short poems from a handful of books that Ted Hughes published during the 1970s. As I explain in the introduction, the period was one of creative flux for Hughes, and the collections that these poems come from are not always successful as books; however, there are magnificent poems to be found within them, and they are easily read outside the context of the books they were first embedded in. They can all be found in his Collected Poems. The poems are:
Prometheus on His Crag (1973)
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7
Gaudette (1977)
- I skin the skin
Uncollected (1977-1978)
- New Foal
Orts (1978)
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1
-
44
Cave Birds (1978)
- The Executioner
- A Green Mother
- Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days
Adam & the Sacred Nine
- And the Phoenix has come
Earthnumb (1979)
- Life is Trying to Be Life
- A God
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A reading from chapter six of Peter Ackroyd’s history of early seventeenth-century England, Civil War (or Rebellion, as the book has been retitled in its America, apparently not to upset anybody buying it by accident and hoping to read about a different Civil War).
Ackroyd uses two texts to paint a brief picture of London at the time: Thomas Dekker’s The Seven Deadly Sins of London (1607), and Ben Jonson’s play Bartholomew Fair(1614).
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A reading of six poems from Ted Hughes's 1967 book, Wodwo, and one uncollected poem from the same time period. They can be found in his Collected Poems.
Wodwo (1967)
- A Wind Flashes the Grass
- Reveille
- from "Out"
- The Warriors of the North
- Heptonstall
- You Drive in a Circle
- from "Scapegoats and Rabies" (uncollected)
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A repeat of a collection of episodes from last year, of five poems by the Irish poet, Eavan Boland. All of them can be found in her New Collected Poems (https://www.amazon.com/New-Collected-Poems-Eavan-Boland/dp/0393337308/)
- Quarantine
- Irish Poetry
- Lines for a Thirtieth Wedding Anniversary
- The Pomegranate
- Lava Cameo
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Long a mainstay on my blog, this is the first time I've recorded my usual Black Friday message, on what our relationship to work, consumerism, culture, technology, and so much else is doing to us now... and what it has seemingly always meant to the majority of human populations.
For those interested in the other episode mentioned here, called Working, you can listen to it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/working/id1535050082?i=1000538208562 (in the end, it seemed too long to add onto the end of this episode).
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A repeat of an episode from 11/21/20, a reading of my poem about Lee Harvey Oswald.
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A reading from Pliny the Younger's letter, describing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii, in the year 79; and Jack London's article describing the great earthquake of San Francisco, in 1906. I end with a reading of Laurie Sheck's poem "Pompeii," from her 2003 book, Black Series.
Pliny the Younger's letter can be read here; and Jack London's article can be read here; however, I only came across both of them together thanks to Lapham's Quarterly, which featured them in their Summer, 2008 issue called Book of Nature; you can buy the issue, or subscribe to the magazine, here. As I've said before, for those not independently wealthy or ensconced in academia, I know of no better resource for the discovery of voices from history.
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Readings from a few books about Pablo Picasso, where he talks about creativity, and how the power behind his own paintings, and his huge output, remained a mystery for him as much as anyone else. The first few quotations come from the huge Taschen book about Picassothat covers his entire life; the rest come from the multi-volume biography of Picasso by John Richardson:
- A Life of Picasso 1: The Prodigy: 1881-1906
- A Life of Picasso 2: The Cubist Rebel: 1907-1916
- A Life of Picasso 3: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932
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A reading of eight poems from Louise Glück's 1992 collection, The Wild Iris; followed by readings made last March, of six poems from her 1990 book, Ararat. Buy Ararator The Wild Irisindividually, or in Glück's Collected Poems 1962-2012.
from The Wild Iris
- Matins ("Forgive me if I say I love you")
- Retreating Wind
- The Garden
- Field Flowers
- Matins ("Not the sun merely but the earth")
- Vespers ("More than you love me, very possibly")
- September Twilight
- The White Lilies
from Ararat
- Lost Love
- Appearances
- Brown Circle
- Child Crying Out
- Celestial Music
- First Memory
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A reading, with comments thrown in throughout, of an essay of mine written between 2015-2016 (I get the dates wrong in the podcast). The entirety of it can be read here as There is Only the Trying: Some Thoughts on Fame & Failure.
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A repeat of an episode first posted on 11/9/2020: A reading from George Orwell’s 1937 book, The Road to Wigan Pier. This long passage comes from the handful of trips he took down into the coal mines of northern England, and the horrible conditions there.
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A reading of four poems by William Wordsworth:
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
- London (1802): "Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour!"
- St. Paul's
- "It was an April morning: fresh and clear" (part 1 on "Poems on the Naming of Places"
I read these here tonight to celebrate the release of a Selected Poems of William Wordsworth that I put together, and was just published. Other small books of poems (Whitman, Tennyson, and Frost) in the same series can be found here. If you'd like to support this podcast, buying a handful of these books would be the easiest way to do it--they are all around 120 pages, and all priced at $3.99.
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A reading of a letter written by the poet Ted Hughes, to friend and critic Al Alvarez, in November of 1971. At this time, Alvarez was publishing an intimate (and to Hughes's mind, exploitative) account of the 1963 suicide of the poet Sylvia Plath. The letter can be found in The Letters of Ted Hughes, pages 321-326.
I use this letter as a starting point to wonder why we treat celebrities, the famous, or just the infamous, the way we do; as Hughes puts it, knowledge of his and Sylvia Plath's marriage and private life can only be entertainment and anecdote, in this case for college teachers and their students; it can offer little insight into either writers' poetry. This intrusion into private lives and their grief, and the ease with which we, fifty years later, continue to lap up the gossip surrounding well-known people, should be an obvious parallel.
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In this seventh episode on Celtic mythology, I review one of the greatest surviving stories in the tradition, Togail Bruidne Dá Derga, or The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel. Since it is also a fairly long story, I only share two small sections from the story itself: a piece from the beginning, and from the story's conclusion. You can read more about it here, or in the sources listed below.
The translation I use here is by Jeffrey Gantz, in his indispensable book, Early Irish Myths & Sagas. As usual, I also make of from James MacKillop's Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, and his Myths & Legends of the Celts.
For W. B. Yeats's 1888 narrative poem, The Wanderings of Oisin, check out Wikipedia.
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A reading of an essay of mine on cultural life and everyday life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. What did it mean to "collaborate," and what acts of collaboration were worthy of punishment or ostracism after the war? As one writer put it, “Should a woman reject a seat offered by a German in the Metro? Should one have refused to receive civilized, non-Nazi Germans whom one had known before the war? Should one have turned one’s back on a German friend in a public place?”
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A reading from the letters of one twentieth century poet, on how he came to discover a love for poetry, the natural world, as well as folklore and mythology, and how all three became intertwined and essential to his life.
The poet in question, whose name I don't reveal until the end, is Ted Hughes. The letters I read from here can be found in Letters of Ted Hughes.
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A reading of excerpts from the correspondence, notebooks, and interviews, with Walt Whitman; and a handful of excerpts from letters and memoirs of W. B. Yeats. For being such different poets, there's an awful lot of overlap, and it seems significant to include them in the same episode.
The passage from Whitman can be found in the appendices of Gary Schmidgall's edition of Whitman's poems; the quotations from Yeats can be found in the first volume of R. F. Foster's biography of Yeats.
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A replay of an episode from 10/28/2020
A reading of Stephen Ambrose's book Undaunted Courage, on the last night of Meriwether Lewis's life, in October of 1809. Unlike his more famous companion, William Clark, Lewis suffered from what we today would call depression, and this passage is one of the saddest I know. Ambrose has remarked that he wept while writing it, and it was hard to keep myself from doing the same while reading it. I should note the mistake I made when introducing the passage: this scene takes place not three days, but three years, after Lewis and Clark's return, but I haven't the heart to read this aloud again.
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A reading from Jan Swafford's Beethoven: Anguish & Triumph, narrating the last months of Beethoven's life.
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A reading of two chapters from Peter Ackroyd's book, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination.
Chapter 5, "A Rare & Singular Bede," covers the life of the Venerable Bede, as well as education and culture in England in the eighth century. Chapter 14, "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes," is a brief look into Anglo-Saxon (aka Old English) poetry, and its continued life and reverberations in English poetry, through the present day.
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A small episode talking about working, and empathy and sympathy for those who live doing work they do not love, and which they derive little meaning from.
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A reading from Shakespeare's Hamlet and book 1 of Wordsworth's The Prelude. I also share two small sections from my poem-in-progress, 1606, about the life of Shakespeare.
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A reading from one of my favorite books, Studs Terkel's Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. Here, Terkel interviews a waitress named Dolores Dante.
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A reading of ten poems from Ted Hughes's first two books, The Hawk in the Rain (1957) and Lupercal (1960). They can be found in his Collected Poems. Another collection of Hughes's poetry that is mentioned in this episode is A Ted Hughes Bestiary, edited by Alice Oswald.
The poems read here are:
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
- The Hawk in the Rain
- The Horses
- Wind
- Invitation to the Dance
- Six Young Men
Lupercal (1960)
- Mayday in Holderness
- View of a Pig
- An Otter, pt. 1
- November
Uncollected Poems 1960-1967
- My Uncle's Wound
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A reading my poem "Unfinished Michelangelo." You can read the poem here. It was originally published at the Basil O'Flaherty.
Learn about--and see--Michelangelo's unfinished slave sculptures here.
The two books I mentioned in this episode are Howard Hibbard's biography of Michelangelo, and William Wallace's wonderfully illustrated Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting & Architecture.
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Another of my autobiographical posts. Here I wonder about the deeper source of my personal mantra, that art is primarily about engendering empathy, and alleviating the loneliness of the artist and the audience experiencing it.
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A reading from Mircea Eliade's book The Myth of the Eternal Return, where a folklorist discovers the source of a local myth and song, and tries to convince them of the "real" story.
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A reading from the beginning of Virgil great poem of farming and nature, Georgics, in the translation by David Ferry. There will be more readings from this book to come.
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A reading from Walt Whitman's poem, "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun." This comes from the earliest published version, in the 1865 collection Drum Taps.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form (this is the book I am reading from here); the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
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A reading of two of my poems about the Holocaust, "A Ploughed Field" and "Train." These poems were published earlier this year at Jewish Journal.
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A reading of my story, "Isis in Old Age." It was originally published in Bold+Italic. The story can also be read here.
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A reading of seven poems from Ted Hughes's 1976 book, Season Songs. It can be found in his Collected Poems.
The poems read here are:
- Spring Nature Notes (parts 5 and 6)
- Icecrust and Snowflake
- Sheep (part 1)
- Autumn Nature Notes (parts 2, 4 and 8)
- The Seven Sorrows
- A Cranefly in September
- Two Horses (part 3)
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A reading from a small section of "Song of Myself." This comes from the earliest published version, in the 1855 Leaves of Grass, when "Song of Myself" was free of section numbers and good deal of editing. For those looking for this section in later editions, it ends up as part of section #33.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form (this is the book I am reading from here); the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
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A reading of nine poems from the last section of my book Bone Antler Stone, on traveling through mainland Orkney. You can buy the book here, and read reviews and essays about the book here.
The poems are:
- Pytheas in the Shetlands
- The Wanderer (Flight to Orkney)
- Walking Birsay to Swannay
- The Brough of Birsay (parts 1 & 2)
- Grain Earth House
- Bone Antler Stone (Orkney Museum)
- The Burn of Boardhouse & the Barony Mill
- Skara Brae
- The Wanderer II (Flight from Orkney)
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In this sixth episode on Celtic mythology, I read the famous story of the wanderings of Oisin/Oisín in the Irish Otherworld, the Tir na nÓg.
As usual, I make use of from James MacKillop's Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. The two versions of the story I read from can be found in James MacKillop's Myths & Legends of the Celts and Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
For W. B. Yeats's 1888 narrative poem, The Wanderings of Oisin, check out Wikipedia.
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A reading of three poems from Ted Hughes's 1983 book, River. It can be found in his Collected Poems.
The poems read here are:
- Four March Watercolours
- After Moonless Midnight
- October Salmon
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A reading from an interview conducted by the Federal Writer's Project during the 1930s and 1940s. The excerpt comes from the Winter 2019 issue of Lapham's Quarterly, but a larger collection of the interviews can be found in the 2004 book, Men Against Granite.
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A reading of my poem on the prehistoric painted caves of France and Spain, "Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira," from the book Bone Antler Stone. You can buy the book here, and read reviews and essays about the book here.
My favorite books on these caves are listed below. For some reason, many of them are hard to find or by now are inordinately expensive. The best general introductions to prehistoric art that are affordable include Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind, by Randall White, and Paul Bahn's Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art. If you can find the following at your library, they are well worth a look:
- Lascaux: Movement, Space and Time, by Norbert Aujoulat
- The Cave of Altamira, edited by Pedro A. Saura Ramos
- Return to Chauvet, by Jean Clottes
- Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material Culture, edited by Colin Renfrew and Iain Morley.
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In this fifth episode on Celtic mythology, I read the famous "pillow talk" between Queen Medb and King Ailill of Connacht. Their dispute over who owns more riches, land, and animals leads to the start of the famous Táin Bó Cúailnge/Cattle Raid of Cooley.
The text of the story is taken from Thomas Kinsella's translation of The Táin. I also read a passage about Medb from James MacKillop's Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology.
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A reading of Harry Kessler's diary from July 10, 1895, visiting the French poet Paul Veraline. From the English translation by Laird Easton, published as Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918.
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A reading of nine Crow poems by Ted Hughes. The contents of Hughes's Crow collections, first published in 1970, vary widely; these poems are taken from his Collected Poems:
- King of Carrion
- Crow and the Birds
- Crow's First Lesson
- Crow Tyrannosaurus
- A Childish Prank
- Crowego
- Song Against the White Owl
- Crow's Courtship
- Crow's Song About God
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A reading of my poems "Star Carr" and "Newgrange" from the book Bone Antler Stone.
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Read about Star Carr and Newgrange on Wikipedia.
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In this fourth episode on Celtic mythology, I read the story of how the great Irish hero, Cúchulainn, got his name.
The text of the story is taken from Thomas Kinsella's translation of The Táin. I also read a passage about Cúchulainn from James MacKillop's Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology.
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A reading from Louis-Sébastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris. The translation is from Helen Simpson's 1933 selection, The Waiting City: Paris 1782-1788.
The excerpt comes from the Winter 2019 issue of Lapham's Quarterly.
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A reading of two war poems by Ted Hughes: "Six Young Men," from his first book, Hawk in the Rain, and an uncollected poem, "My Uncle's Wound." Both can be found in his Collected Poems.
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A reading of my poem "Cauldron & Drink," from the book Bone Antler Stone. This poem originally appeared in the Irish poetry journal Crannog.
You can buy the book here, and read reviews and essays about the book here.
Read about the Gundestrup Cauldron from c.200 BCE-AD 300 Denmark, and the Vix Grave from c.500 BCE France.
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A collection of all the poems by Seamus Heaney I have read here over the past few months, spanning his entire career.
Each of his collections of poetry can of course be purchased on their own, but nearly everything I read here can be found either in his career-spanning 100 Poems, or in the two volumes of his selected poetry: Selected Poems 1966-1987 and Selected Poems 1988-2013.
Death of a Naturalist (1966)
- Follower
- Poem
- Personal Helicon
Door Into the Dark (1969)
- Dream
- The Forge
- Bogland
Wintering Out (1972)
- The Tollund Man
- Limbo
- First Calf
North (1975)
- Belderg
- Funeral Rites
- Bog Queen
- The Grauballe Man
- Punishment
- Strange Fruit
- Kinship
Field Work (1979)
- The Strand at Lough Beg
- from "Field Work"
Station Island (1984)
- The Railway Children
- VII from Station Island
- VIII from Station Island
- The Scribes
The Haw Lantern (1987)
- III from Clearances
- The Mud Vision
Seeing Things (1991)
- Seeing Things
- 1.1.87
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2, #8 from Lightenings
-
15 from Settings
-
25, #27, #31, #32 from Crossings
-
40, #42, #45, #46 from Squarings
The Spirit Level (1996)
- The Strand
- Postscript
District & Circle (2006)
- A Shiver
-
1 from "District & Circle"
- A Hagging Match
Human Chain (2010)
- Uncoupled
- Miracle
- from "Colum Cille Cecinit"
- from Hermit Songs
- from In the Attic
from Heaney's translation of Beowulf
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A reading of a handful of poems from the second half of Seamus Heaney's career. Aside from his book Seeing Things, his poetry doesn't seem nearly as powerful to me as his earlier work, and so it seemed best to sum up my favorite poems from his later life here.
The poems are:
Station Island (1984)
- The Railway Children
- Part VII from "Station Island"
from The Spirit Level (1996)
- The Strand
- Postscript
from District and Circle (2006)
- A Shiver
- Part 1 of "District and Circle"
- A Hagging Match
from Human Chain(2010)
- from "Colum Cille Cecinit"
- from "Hermit Songs"
And a final section from his translation of Beowulf
You can buy the individual volumes, or find nearly all of these poems in the career-spanning 100 Poems.
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A reading of 3 poems from Seamus Heaney's last collection from 2010, Human Chain. The poems are:
- Uncoupled
- Miracle
- an excerpt from In the Attic
Human Chain can be purchased here.
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The last in a series of four episodes on the atomic bomb, from its development to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, drawn from the words of those who were there. The full text of the quotations used here can be found in the blog versions of these podcasts.
The books used to make these episodes are:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds, by Peter Goodchild.
The book that comes to different conclusions than me, and which I hope to devote an entire episode to in the future, is A. C. Grayling's Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan
John Else's documentary, The Day After Trinity, can be watched here.
John Bradley's anthology of poets writing about the bomb is Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Atomic Age.
My essay, "Blindness, War & History," first published in the Concho River Review in 2014, can be read here.
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The third in a series of four episodes on the atomic bomb, from its development to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, drawn from the words of those who were there. The full text of the quotations used here can be found in the blog versions of these podcasts.
The books used to make these episodes are:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds, by Peter Goodchild.
John Else's documentary, The Day After Trinity, can be watched here.
John Bradley's anthology of poets writing about the bomb is Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Atomic Age.
My essay, "Blindness, War & History," first published in the Concho River Review in 2014, can be read here.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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The second in a series of four episodes on the atomic bomb, from its development to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, drawn from the words of those who were there. The full text of the quotations used here can be found in the blog versions of these podcasts.
The books used to make these episodes are:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds, by Peter Goodchild.
John Else's documentary, The Day After Trinity, can be watched here.
John Bradley's anthology of poets writing about the bomb is Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Atomic Age.
My essay, "Blindness, War & History," first published in the Concho River Review in 2014, can be read here.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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The first in a series of four episodes on the atomic bomb, from its development to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, drawn from the words of those who were there. The full text of the quotations used here can be found in the blog versions of these podcasts.
The books used to make these episodes are:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds, by Peter Goodchild.
John Else's documentary, The Day After Trinity, can be watched here.
John Bradley's anthology of poets writing about the bomb is Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Atomic Age.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of Seamus Heaney's poem dedicated to the memory of his mother, the third in a series of sonnets called "Clearances," from his 1987 book, The Haw Lantern. As a part of A Poem for Ireland project, this poem was voted by listeners of the RTE as the favorite Irish poem of the twentieth century. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of my poems "Song of the Smith" and "A Song to Stone," from the book Bone Antler Stone.
You can buy the book here, and read reviews and essays about the book here.
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A reading from James Garbarino's 1999 book on violent young men, Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent & How We Can Save Them. Garbarino has written many other books on the topic, and this one especially can both continue to speak to us today, as well as seem like a time capsule before the internet went crazy, before smartphones, and before social media.
For these reasons & others, this episode is a good companion to only the third episode of Human Voices Wake Us, where I read from Mary Pipher's 1994 book on teenage girls, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
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The latest episode of The Poet Speaks, where I talk about storytelling with examples from James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, John Hawkes, Geoffrey Hill, and William Trevor.
James Joyce's 1906 letter to his brother can be found here.
Thomas Hardy's short story, "On the Western Circuit," can be found here.
The two volumes of William Trevor's short stories can be found here and here.
The short story collection of mine that I mention during the episode is called The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old.
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A reading of my poem "The Sun Sets Into the Sea," from the book Bone Antler Stone.
You can buy the book here, and read reviews and essays about the book here.
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A reading and commentary from interviews Seamus Heaney gave on the writing of his 1991 book Seeing Things, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
Seeing Things can be purchased here.
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A 13 poems from Seamus Heaney's 1991 collection, Seeing Things. The poems are:
- 11 poems from the sequence called "Squarings": #2, #8, #15, #25, #27, #31, #32, #40, #42, #45, #46
- Seeing Things
- 1.1.87
Seeing Things can be purchased here.
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A reading of two poems from Seamus Heaney's 1991 collection, Seeing Things. The poems are the title poem, "Seeing Things," and "1.1.87"; both address the memory and death of Heaney's father.
Seeing Things can be purchased here.
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A reading of five more poems from the sequence "Squarings," from Seamus Heaney's 1991 collection, Seeing Things. The poems in the sequence have only numbers for titles, and these are #32, #40, #42, 45, and #46. Seeing Things can be purchased here.
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A reading of three poems from the sequence "Squarings," from Seamus Heaney's 1991 collection, Seeing Things. The poems in the sequence have only numbers for titles, and these are #25, #27 and #31. Seeing Things can be purchased here.
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A reading of three poems from the sequence "Squarings," from Seamus Heaney's 1991 collection, Seeing Things. The poems in the sequence have only numbers for titles, and these are #2, #8 and #15. Seeing Things can be purchased here.
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In this third episode on Celtic mythology, I read a summary of the Lebor Gabála Érenn, otherwise known as the Book of Invasions, or The Book of the Taking of Ireland. I also discuss why, with some of this mythological and folkloric material, reading a summary and not the original is preferable.
The summary I read comes from James MacKillop's Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology.
The 5-volume English translation of the entire Lebor Gabála Érenn (published by the Irish Texts Society) can be purchased in hardcover here; however, each volume is now available for download as .pdfs, here.
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Artlessness is a thing.
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The Poet Speaks will be a series of episodes where I share my favorite comments on creativity from other artists, poets, and writers.
The quotations from this episode come from: Joseph Campbell (interviewed by Michael Toms), Beethoven (from Jan Swafford's biography), and the Paris Review interviews with W. S. Merwin and W. D. Snodgrass.
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Since there aren't many poems in Seamus Heaney's 1979 collection Field Work that I wanted to share here, I've done something a bit different this time:
The first poem I share is "The Strand at Lough Beg," from Field Work, and the second is part 8 from Heaney's sequence Station Island, from 1984. "The Strand at Lough Beg" is dedicated to Heaney's second cousin, Colum McCartney, who was murdered in 1975 by Protestant sectarians; the poem from Station Island allows that same cousin to scold Heaney for making his death, almost, into an aesthetic experience. It seemed worthwhile to put these poems together here. Finally, a section from the title sequence of Field Work is read.
Field Work can be purchased here, and Station Island here. A good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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The Poet Speaks will be a series of episodes where I share my favorite comments on creativity from other artists, poets, and writers.
The quotations from this episode come from:
- Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
- Jean Guéhenno, The Diary of the Dark Years: 1940-1944
- Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being
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A reading of seven poems from Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, North (1975):
- Belderg
- Funeral Rites
- Bog Queen
- The Grauballe Man
- Punishment
- Strange Fruit
- Kinship
Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of North, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney. This time around, the interviews are prefaced by a more historical introduction to the bog bodies that figure in the poems from North. The books mentioned and read from in this section are P. V. Glob's The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved, Wijnand Van Der Sanden's Through Nature to Eternity: The Bog Bodies of Northwest Europe, Timothy Taylor's The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death, Miranda Aldhouse-Green's Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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A reading and commentary from interviews Seamus Heaney gave on the writing of his fourth book, North, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
The Heaney interviews are prefaced by a more historical introduction to the bog bodies that figure in his poems from North. The books mentioned and read from in this section are P. V. Glob's The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved, Wijnand Van Der Sanden's Through Nature to Eternity: The Bog Bodies of Northwest Europe, Timothy Taylor's The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death, Miranda Aldhouse-Green's Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of the poem "Kinship," from Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, North (1975).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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A reading of the poem "Strange Fruit," from Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, North (1975).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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A reading of the poem "Punishment," from Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, North (1975).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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A reading of the poem "The Grauballe Man," from Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, North (1975).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of the poem "Bog Queen," from Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, North (1975).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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A reading of the poem "Funeral Rites," from Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, North (1975).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of the poem "Belderg," from Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, North (1975).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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A reading of three poems from Seamus Heaney's third collection, Wintering Out (1972):
- The Tollund Man
- Limbo
- First Calf
Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Wintering Out, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading and commentary from interviews Seamus Heaney gave on the writing of his third book, Wintering Out, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of the poem "First Calf," from Seamus Heaney's third collection, Wintering Out (1969).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of the poem "Limbo," from Seamus Heaney's third collection, Wintering Out (1969).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of the poem "The Tollund Man," from Seamus Heaney's third collection, Wintering Out (1969).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of three poems from Seamus Heaney's second collection, Door into the Dark (1969):
- Dream
- The Forge
- Bogland
Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Door into the Dark, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading and commentary from interviews Seamus Heaney gave on the writing of his second book, Door into the Dark, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of the poem "Bogland," from Seamus Heaney's second collection, Door Into the Dark (1969).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of two poems from Seamus Heaney's second collection, Door Into the Dark (1969):
- Dream
- The Forge
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading and commentary from interviews Seamus Heaney gave on the writing of his first book, Death of a Naturalist, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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A reading of three poems from Seamus Heaney's first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966):
- Follower
- Poem
- Personal Helicon
Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Death of a Naturalist, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of Seamus Heaney's poem "Personal Helicon," from his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of Seamus Heaney's poem for his wife Marie, "Poem," from his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of Seamus Heaney's poem about his father, "Follower," from his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966).
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of part of John Keats's letter of October 27, 1818, where he talks about the poet and the poetic character.
The full text of the letter is here, and the actual letter can be viewed here.
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A reading of a letter Hart Crane sent to his father in January of 1924. I don't know of a better attempt by a poet to explain his vocation to someone who will never understand it, than this.
The letter is found on O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane, edited by Langdon Hammer & Brom Weber.
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Here is a collection of all of the recordings I've made of the poetry of Robinson Jeffers from November of 2020 until this month. It's merely my list of favorite thirty seven of his poems, which was culled from a larger selection of more than a hundred poems I've loved over the years.
His collected poetry spans three huge volumes, and nearly every individual collection included a narrative poem alongside the shorter lyrics. While Jeffers seemed to have believed that his reputation would rest on the longer poems, none of them (at least for me) come near matching the power that he is able to achieve in his shorter poems. At his best, I can't think of an American poet since Whitman to match his voice, and can think of no other American poet to write who has written so beautifully and so sadly about nature, and humanity's place in it.
Because Jeffers's "inhumanist" philosophy is so dour and cynical, it's easy to dismiss his poetry and relegate him to the status of a crank, or as merely a regional, "Californian," or "ecological" poet. But to pigeon-hole a poet like him does a disservice to us all.
Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers.
The texts used in the readings, and the titles and dates gives for each collection, follow The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers.
Tamar (1920-1923)
- The Excesses of God
- Age in Prospect
- To the Rock that Will Be a Cornerstone of the House
- Point Joe
Roan Stallion (1924-1925)
- Birds
- Boats in a Fog
- Joy
The Women at Point Sur (1925-1926)
- Post Mortem
- Pelicans
- excerpt from Credo
Cawdor (1926-1928)
- Tor House
Dear Judas (1928-1929)
- Hooded Night
- excerpt from Ossian's Grave
- Antrim
- Inscription for a Gravestone
- Subjected Earth
- Second Best
Thurso's Landing (1930-1931)
- New Mexican Mountain
Give Your Heart to the Hawks (1931-1933)
- Still the Mind Smiles
Such Counsels You Gave to Me (1935-1938)
- Nova
- Contemplation of the Sword
- Shiva
The Double Axe (1942-1947)
- Original Sin
Hungerfield (1948-1953)
- Animals
- Time of Disturbance
- The Beauty of Things
- The World's Wonders
- The Old Stone-Mason
- excerpt from Hungerfield
- De Rerum Virtute
- The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
Last Poems (1953-1962)
- Explosion
- Vulture
- "The polar ice-caps are melting"
- "As the eye fails"
- "It nearly cancels my fear of death"
- "I am seventy-four years old"
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A reading of three poems from Robinson Jeffers’s book Dear Judas. The poems are:
- Hooded Night
- an excerpt from Ossian's Grave
- Antrim
- Inscription for a Gravestone
- Subjected Earth
- Second Best
Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers.
The entirety of Dear Judas can be found in volume two of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers.
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A reading of Robinson Jeffers's poem, "Tor House," from the collection Cawdor (1926-1928). Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. The entirety of “Cawdor” can be found in The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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The Poet Speaks will be a series of episodes where I share my favorite comments on creativity from other artists, poets, and writers. The quotations from this episode come from Serge Bramly's Leonardo: The Artist & the Man, and the Paris Review interviews with Conrad Aiken and William Meredith.
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A reading of three poems from Robinson Jeffers’s book "The Women at Point Sur.” The poems are:
- Post Mortem
- Pelicans
- an excerpt from Credo
Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
The entirety of “The Women at Point Sur” can be found in The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers
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Here are four poems I wrote about Columbine. There are many others, but these are the only ones I can bear to read aloud.
The two books I mention in the introduction are Dave Cullen's Columbine, and Sue Klebold's A Mother's Reckoning. Also, any writing or interviews you can find online with Andrew Solomon are worth getting into as well, especially his book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children & the Search for Identity.
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A reading of seven poems from Ted Hughes's 1979 collection, Remains of Elmet, which can be found in his Collected Poems.
The seven poems are:
- The Trance of Light
- Hill-Stone was Content
- Remains of Elmet
- The Ancient Briton Lay under His Rock
- Heptonstall
- Widdop
- Cock-Crows
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The Poet Speaks will be a series of episodes where I share my favorite comments on writing and creativity from other artists, poets, and writers. The quotations from this episode come from James Shapiro's 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, and the Paris Review interviews with Robert Fitzgerald, Philip Larkin, Octavio Paz, and Robert Lowell.
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Jealousy. Along the lines of a previous long episode, "Stubbornness," I wonder aloud about the jealousy that creative people feel towards each other, especially my own, and I wonder where it comes from, and what use it can be.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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Six months into this podcast, I come to episode #100. For those who are interested, here's a rundown of what I imagined I was doing when I got started, and how surprised I am to still be going. Thanks to all those who are listening!
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In this second episode on Celtic mythology, I read the story "The Quarrel of the Two Pig-keepers and how the Bulls were Begotten," from Thomas Kinsella's translation and selection from the great Irish epic, The Tain.
The other books referred to in this episode are by James MacKillop: the Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology and Myths & Legends of the Celts.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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This is the fourth in what will be a long series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. For the next month or so, the book I will be reading from is Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass, and and the decade or so after, which Zweig and many others identify has the period in which he wrote his best poetry.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form; the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Walt Whitman's poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." The reading is from the earliest published version of the poem, in his book of Civil War poetry, Drum Taps. The full text of that version is here; the final revision of the poem is here.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form (this is the book I am reading from here); the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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This is the fourth in what will be a long series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. For the next month or so, the book I will be reading from is Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass, and and the decade or so after, which Zweig and many others identify has the period in which he wrote his best poetry.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form; the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Walt Whitman's poem "I Sing the Body Electric." The reading is from the earliest published version of the poem, in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, where the poems was untitled. The full text of that version is here; the final revision of the poem is here.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form (this is the book I am reading from here); the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of H. D.'s poem "Envy" which can be found in her Collected Poems 1912-1944. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of H. D.'s poem "Eros" which can be found in her Collected Poems 1912-1944.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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This is the fourth in what will be a long series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. For the next month or so, the book I will be reading from is Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass, and and the decade or so after, which Zweig and many others identify has the period in which he wrote his best poetry.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form; the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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Stubbornness. An experiment in what might become a podcast diary/autobiography, and starting off with a poem I wrote when I was 18 (sorry, I say in the episode I was 17), and wondering where my stubbornness, confidence, and early thoughts on art and creativity came from. It may not work at all.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of two love poems by H. D., "Eros" and "Envy," which are included in her Collected Poems 1912-1944.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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This is the third in what will be a long series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. For the next month or so, the book I will be reading from is Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass, and and the decade or so after, which Zweig and many others identify has the period in which he wrote his best poetry.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form; the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Louise Glück's poem “Brown Circle,” from her 1990 collection, Ararat. Buy Ararat, or Glück's Collected Poems 1962-2012. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of H. D.’s poem “Wine Bowl,” from her 1931 collection, Red Roses for Bronze. Buy her Collected Poems 1912-1944.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Walt Whitman's poem "The Sleepers." The reading is from the earliest published version of the poem, in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, where the poems was untitled. The full text of that version is here; the final revision of the poem is here.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form (this is the book I am reading from here); the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of six poems from Louise Glück's 1990 collection, Ararat. The poems are:
- Lost Love
- Appearances
- Brown Circle
- Child Crying Out
- Celestial Music
- First Memory
Buy Ararat, or Glück's Collected Poems 1962-2012.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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This is the second in what will be a long series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. For the next month or so, the book I will be reading from is Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass, and and the decade or so after, which Zweig and many others identify has the period in which he wrote his best poetry.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form; the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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In beginning a new series of Great Myths, now delving into Celtic mythology, I read the short but representative story, "The Dream of Óengus" (Aisling Óenguso). I also discuss how many aspects of the story serve as a nice introduction to the larger stories I will talk about and read from in future episodes.
The translation of "The Dream of Óengus" that I use comes from Jeffrey Gantz's wonderful book, Early Irish Myths & Sagas.
For anyone entering into these stories, I will also never stop recommending James MacKillop's Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. It is one of the great reference books.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Walt Whitman's poem "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life." The reading is from the earliest published version of the poem, in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it is titled "Leaves of Grass #1." The full text of that version is here; the final revision of the poem is here.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, the best editions for me are Gary Schmidgall's Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892, which present his best poems in their earliest published form (this is the book I am reading from here); the second includes the first and last editions of Leaves of Grass, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of H. D.’s poem “Lethe,” from her 1924 collection, “Heliodora.” Buy her Collected Poems 1912-1944.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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This is the first in what will be a long series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. For the next month or so, the book I will be reading from is Paul Zweig's Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass, and and the decade or so after, which Zweig and many others identify has the period in which he wrote his best poetry.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, I prefer the two editions published by the Library of America: the first includes the 1855 and 1892 versions of Leaves of Grass, and the second includes the same, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support
A reading of three essays by George Orwell on the Allied bombings of German cities in World War Two, and the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan.
I am reading from the exhaustive (more than 1,300 pages) collection of hundreds of Orwell's essays, reviews and articles to be found in the Everyman's Library edition of George Orwell's Essays. For those who would just like to see find the text of what I've read from, their online counterparts are linked to below:
- As I Please #25, from May 19, 1944
- As I Please #33, from July 14, 1944
- You and the Atom Bomb, from October 19, 1945
- An online collection of all of his As I Please articles can be found here.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A collection of four episodes on the mythology of Ancient Egypt. For a full list of readings used, visit the page for each individual episode, in the links below:
Episode #4(beginning at 00:36) is an introduction and reading of only a handful of the ancient Egyptian Pyramid texts.
Episode #5(beginning at 46:00) is an overview of the story of the Egyptian god Osiris, with readings from the most complete Egyptian and Greek sources
Episode #6(beginning at 1:27:15) is an overview of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and a reading from Chapter 125.
Episode #7(beginning at 1:56:45) is a reading of Herodotus's account of Egyptian embalming/mummification practices, followed by a summing up of Egyptian myth episodes.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Herodotus's account of Egyptian embalming/mummification practices, followed by a summing up of Egyptian myth episodes.
The translation of Herodotus used is the Landmark Herodotus; the essays I read from can be found in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, and the entries on "Mythological Texts" and "Mythology"; the grumpy Egypt-hater's remarks can be found in the introduction to his volume in the Mythology of All Races.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of three of Robinson Jeffers’s poems from “Roan Stallion.” The poems are:
"Birds" "Boats in a Fog" "Joy"
Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers The entirety of “Roan Stallion” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Walt Whitman's poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."
The full text of the poem is here.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, I prefer the two editions published by the Library of America: the first includes the 1855 and 1892 versions of Leaves of Grass, and the second (and the book I'm reading from here) includes the same, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of a few poems from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind, and some reflections on Ferlinghetti himself. He died yesterday at the age of 101, and you can read his obituary here.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Joy,” from his collection “Roan Stallion.”
Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
The entirety of “Roan Stallion” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Boats in a Fog,” from his collection “Roan Stallion.”
Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
The entirety of “Roan Stallion” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Birds,” from his collection “Roan Stallion.”
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The entirety of “Roan Stallion” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers
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A brief introduction to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, with a reading of the longest chapter in the book, Chapter 125.
Both the introduction to the Book of the Dead and the text of Chapter 125 comes from Miriam Lichtheim: Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 2: The New Kingdom
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A reading of Walt Whitman's poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."
The full text of the poem is here.
The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions).
While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, I prefer the two editions published by the Library of America: the first includes the 1855 and 1892 versions of Leaves of Grass, and the second (and the book I'm reading from here) includes the same, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.
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A reading of four poems from Robinson Jeffers’s 1924 book, “Tamar & Other Poems.” The poems are:
- "The Excesses of God"
- "Age in Prospect"
- "The Rock that will be the Cornerstone of the House"
- "Point Joe"
Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
The entirety of “Tamar & Other Poems” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers
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A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Point Joe,” from his 1924 book, “Tamar & Other Poems.” Buy "The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poetry-Robinson-Jeffers/dp/0804741085/ The entirety of “Tamar & Other Poems” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers: https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Collected%20Poetry%20of%20Robinson%20Jeffers Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “To the Rock that will be the Cornerstone of the House,” from his 1924 book, “Tamar & Other Poems.” Buy "The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poetry-Robinson-Jeffers/dp/0804741085/ The entirety of “Tamar & Other Poems” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers: https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Collected%20Poetry%20of%20Robinson%20Jeffers Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading from early on in George Orwell’s “Down & Out in Paris & London.”
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https://www.amazon.com/Down-Paris-London-George-Orwell/dp/015626224X
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A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Age in Prospect,” from his 1924 book, “Tamar & Other Poems.” Buy "The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poetry-Robinson-Jeffers/dp/0804741085/ The entirety of “Tamar & Other Poems” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers: https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Collected%20Poetry%20of%20Robinson%20Jeffers Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “The Excesses of God,” from his 1924 book, “Tamar & Other Poems.” Buy "The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poetry-Robinson-Jeffers/dp/0804741085/ The entirety of “Tamar & Other Poems” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers: https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Collected%20Poetry%20of%20Robinson%20Jeffers Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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An overview of the story of the Egyptian god Osiris, with readings from the most complete Egyptian and Greek sources.
The books read from in this episode are:
for Plutarch's account: Isis & Osiris(electronic text of the 1936 Loeb Classical Library edition of Plutarch's Moralia)
for the "Great Hymn to Osiris": Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 2: The New Kingdom
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Salima Ikram & Aidan Dodson, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity
Douglas Brewer, Ancient Egypt: Foundations of a Civilization
Richard Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One & the Many
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A reading of H. D.’s poem "Adonis" from her early collection, “The God.” Buy her Collected Poems 1912-1944.
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A reading of thirteen of my favorite poems from Laurie Sheck’s 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.”
As I mention when introducing the poem "Headlights," I found Sheck's book in the late 1990s, back when Borders Outlet still existed. The store often had relatively recent books of poetry available for fairly cheap, and as a young writer it was my source for discovering new poets. As I came to learn, though, their selection was scattershot and not too good, with the exception of Sheck's book. It remains one of the best single collections of poetry I've ever read, probably because the entirety reads like one long poem. Even the thirteen poems here, when heard together, have the wholeness of a continuous story.
The thirteen poems are:
- The Stockroom
- Living Color
- from the Book of Persephone, pt. 4
- Learning to Read
- Mummy
- Morning Walk
- Sycamore
- The Leper Colony
- View of the Asylum Garden
- Headlights
- Streets
- Cypresses
- Sea
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Sea,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Cypresses,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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An introduction and reading of only a handful of the ancient Egyptian Pyramid texts.
The translation I use comes from James P. Allen's "The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts." Since buying my copy, a second edition has been released, and can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egyptian-Pyramid-Texts-Writings/dp/1628371145
For those who are interested in a more in-depth introduction to the Pyramid Texts, the entirety of Allen's preface can be downloaded here: http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/061538P-front.pdf
James Allen's book is only one book in a tremendous series called Writing from the Ancient World, published by the Society of Biblical Literature. The full catalogue of those books can be found here: https://www.sbl-site.org/publications/Books_WAW.aspx
The other translation of the Pyramid Texts mentioned in this episode, made by Raymond O. Faulkner, can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egyptian-Pyramid-Egyptology-English/dp/0865161240
Finally, the best one-volume guide to ancient Egyptian religion, Erik Hornung's "Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many," can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Conceptions-God-Ancient-Egypt-Many/dp/0801483840
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Streets,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “View of the Asylum Garden,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “The Leper Colony,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Sycamore,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Mummy,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “from the Book of Persephone pt. 4,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Morning Walk,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Living Color,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Eavan Boland’s poem “Lava Cameo,” from her collection “In a Time of Violence.” That collection, and everything she published from 1967-2008, is included in her “New Collected Poems”: https://www.amazon.com/New-Collected-Poems-Eavan-Boland/dp/0393337308 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of five poems from Ted Hughes’s 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.” The poems are:
- "Rain"
- "Struggle"
- "February 17th"
- "Birth of Rainbow"
- "A Monument"
Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems.
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A reading of Eavan Boland’s poem “The Pomegranate,” from her collection “In a Time of Violence.” That collection, and everything she published from 1967-2008, is included in her “New Collected Poems”: https://www.amazon.com/New-Collected-Poems-Eavan-Boland/dp/0393337308 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Ted Hughes’s poem, “A Monument,” from his 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.” Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Ted-Hughes/dp/0374529655 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Ted Hughes’s poem, “Birth of Rainbow,” from his 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.” Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Ted-Hughes/dp/0374529655 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Ted Hughes’s poem, “February 17th,” from his 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.” Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Ted-Hughes/dp/0374529655 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Louise Bogan's poem, "The Alchemist.”
Buy Bogan’s collected poems, "Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968," here: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Estuaries-Poems-1923-1968/dp/0374524610
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A reading of three of Eavan Boland’s poems from her collection “Against Love Poetry.” The poems are:
- "Quarantine"
- "Lines for a Thirtieth Wedding Anniversary"
- "Irish Poetry"
That collection, and everything she published from 1967-2008, is included in her New Collected Poems.
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A reading of Ted Hughes’s poem, “Struggle,” from his 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.” Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Ted-Hughes/dp/0374529655 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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Here are the complete readings I've made from Andrew George's translation of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. In the first, I read about the creation of Enkidu and how, through the sacred prostitute Shamhat, he is civilized and taken out of his life in nature. In the second, I read Enkidu’s deathbed speech, and the dream he has about the Underworld, just before his death. In the third, I read Gilgamesh’s meeting with Utanapishti, who relates the Mesopotamian account of the Flood, and Gilgamesh’s final failure at achieving immortality. Buy Andrew George’s translation here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/ Buy NK Sandars’s prose version here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh/dp/014044100X/ Buy Stephen Mitchell’s version here: https://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-English-Version-Stephen-Mitchell/dp/0743261690 Buy Nahum Sarna’s commentary on Genesis here: https://www.amazon.com/JPS-Torah-Commentary-Nahum-Sarna/dp/0827603266 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A final excerpt from Andrew George’s translation of the epic of Gilgamesh. Here, I read Gilgamesh’s meeting with Utanapishti, who relates the Mesopotamian account of the Flood, and with Gilgamesh’s final failure at achieving immortality.
Buy Andrew George’s translation here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/
Buy NK Sandars’s prose version here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh/dp/014044100X/
Buy Stephen Mitchell’s version here: https://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-English-Version-Stephen-Mitchell/dp/0743261690
Buy Nahum Sarna’s commentary on Genesis here: https://www.amazon.com/JPS-Torah-Commentary-Nahum-Sarna/dp/0827603266
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Another excerpt from Andrew George’s translation of the epic of Gilgamesh. Here, I read Enkidu’s deathbed speech, and the dream he has, just before he dies, of the Underworld.
Buy Andrew George’s translation here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/
Buy NK Sandars’s prose version here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh/dp/014044100X/
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of T. S. Eliot’s poem, “Preludes.”
Buy Eliot’s “Collected Poems 1909-1962” here: https://www.amazon.com/T-Eliot-Collected-1909-1962-Centenary/dp/0151189781
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A reading of Ted Hughes’s poem, “Rain,” from his 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.” Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Ted-Hughes/dp/0374529655 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading from the beginning of Andrew George’s translation of the epic of Gilgamesh, with a long prologue about what the story means to me. More episodes from Gilgamesh will follow, & this will begin a long series on mythology & religion.
Buy Andrew George’s translation here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/
Buy NK Sandars’s prose version here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh/dp/014044100X/
Buy David Ferry’s version here: https://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-New-Rendering-English-Verse/dp/0374523835/
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A reading of Wallace Stevens’s poem, “The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain.” Buy Stevens’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101911689/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Learning to Read,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Wallace Stevens’s poem, “The Planet on the Table.” Buy Stevens’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101911689/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Learning to Read,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading of Yvor Winter’s poem, “The Slow Pacific Swell.”
Buy his “Selected Poems” here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-Yvor-Winters/dp/0804010137
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A reading of Yvor Winter’s poem, “Time and the Garden.”
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A reading of Delmore Schwartz’s poem, “In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave.”
Buy his “Selected Poems” here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-Knowledge-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811201910/
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A reading of a handful of poems from the middle years of Robinson Jeffers’s career, about 1930-1947.
Buy "The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poetry-Robinson-Jeffers/dp/0804741085/
Jeffers’s complete poems can be found in the multi volume Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers: https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Collected%20Poetry%20of%20Robinson%20Jeffers
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A reading of Kathleen Raine’s poem, “Two Invocations of Death.”
I found the poem in Philip Larkin’s Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, & was happy to discover that Raine’s Collected was just issued by Faber: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0571352022
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A reading of Eavan Boland’s poem, “Lines for a Thirtieth Wedding Anniversary,” from her collection “Against Love Poetry.”
That collection, and everything she published from 1967-2008, is included in her “New Collected Poems”: https://www.amazon.com/New-Collected-Poems-Eavan-Boland/dp/0393337308
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A reading of Eavan Boland’s poem, “Quarantine,” from her collection “Against Love Poetry.”
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A reading of Eavan Boland’s poem, “Irish Poetry,” from her collection “Against Love Poetry.”
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A reading from Andrew Solomon’s book “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity.” This passage is taken from the chapter on the lives of deaf children, and their parents.
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743236726
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A reading from Studs Terkel’s book, “American Dreams: Lost & Found.” Here, a man named Andy Johnson talks about his life.
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565845455
Andy Johnson’s interview is also included in Terkel’s best-of volume, “The Studs Terkel Reader”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595581774
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A reading of Robert Pinsky’s poem, “The Figured Wheel.”
Buy his Selected Poems here: www.amazon.com/dp/0374533164
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A reading of William Wordsworth’s poem “St. Paul’s,” which is remarkable enough on its own, but even more so when we learn he never published it in his lifetime.
There are dozens of good editions of his poetry; the Major Works selection from OUP is where I started: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199536864/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_fabc_hPXUFbZV84SDP
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A reading of my poem about Lee Harvey Oswald.
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A reading of C. Day Lewis's poem, "My Mother's Sister." Buy Lewis's Selected Poems here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-C-Day-Lewis/dp/1904634117/ Buy Lewis's Complete Poems here: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Poems-C-Day-Lewis/dp/0804720703/ Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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A reading from Lawrence Weschler’s collection of essays, “Vermeer in Bosnia,” where a war-crimes trial judge finds some solace from his daily work by visiting Vermeer’s paintings at the Mauritshuis museum.
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0679777407
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A reading of Walt Whitman’s 1863 letter to the parents of Erastus Haskell, a wounded soldier during the Civil War that Whitman befriended and cared for, until Haskell’s death.
The letter can be found in the best account of Whitman’s life during the Civil War, Roy Morris Jr.’s “The Better Angel: Walt Whitman & the Civil War”: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Angel-Walt-Whitman-Civil/dp/0195124820/
The full edition of Whitman’s letters can. E purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Correspondence-Volumes-Collected-Writings-Whitman/dp/0814794270
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A reading from George Orwell’s 1937 book, “The Road to Wigan Pier.” This long passage comes from the handful of trips he took down into the coal mines of northern England, and the horrible conditions there.
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Road-Wigan-Pier-George-Orwell/dp/0156767503
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In the first installment of The Art of the Opening Page, here is an excerpt from Neil Postman's 1985 book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business."
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X/
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A reading of a handful of poems from one of Robinson Jeffers’s last collections, the late collection “Hungerfield.” Buy "The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poetry-Robinson-Jeffers/dp/0804741085/ All of the poems read here come from Jeffers's "Hungerfield,” the entirety of which is in Volume 3 of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers: https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Collected%20Poetry%20of%20Robinson%20Jeffers Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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Readings of two passages from Franz Kafka's "The Trial": the fable known as "Before the Law," and the concluding scene, where Josef K. is executed.
The readings are taken from the recent translation of "The Trial," by Breon Mitchell: https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Translation-Restored-Schocken-Library/dp/0805209999
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A reading of Stephen Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage," on the last night of Meriwether Lewis's life, in October of 1809. Unlike his more famous companion, William Clark, Lewis suffered from what we today would call depression, and this passage is one of the saddest I know. Ambrose has remarked that he wept while writing it, and it was hard to keep myself from doing the same while reading it. I should note the mistake I made when introducing the passage: this scene takes place not three days, but three years, after Lewis and Clark's return, but I haven't the heart to read this aloud again.
Buy Ambrose's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Undaunted-Courage-Meriwether-Jefferson-American/dp/0684826976
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A reading of six poems from the "Last Poems" of Robinson Jeffers: The poems are "Explosion," "Vulture," "''The polar ice-caps are melting, the mountain glaciers,'" "'As the eye fails through age or disease,'" "'It nearly cancels my fear of death, my dearest said,'" "'I am seventy-four years old and suddenly all my strength.'"
Buy "The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poetry-Robinson-Jeffers/dp/0804741085/
All of the poems read here come from Jeffers's "Last Poems," the entirety of which is in Volume 3 of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers: https://www.sup.org/books/series/?series=The%20Collected%20Poetry%20of%20Robinson%20Jeffers
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A reading from the poet W. S. Merwin’s memoir, “The Mays of Ventadorn,” where he recalls meeting Ezra Pound in 1949, back when Pound was already legendary and infamous, and Merwin was just starting out.
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A reading from Michael Ondaatje’s 1993 novel, “The English Patient,” and some thoughts on how certain books become reference points in our lives.
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A reading of five poems from my (as yet unpublished) book, "School of Night." Each circle around the strange feeling of being awake and alone at night, and the creativity and paranoia that can result.
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Readings of two love poems by W. B. Yeats: the early poem, "The Song of Wandering Aengus," and one of his very last poems, "Politics." Both still break the heart, despite the vast distance in time and style between the two.
Buy the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats here: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-William-Butler-1996-09-09/dp/B01LP2T9AS
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A reading of three of my favorite of Wallace Stevens’s poems, “How to Live. What to Do,” “The Idea of Order at Key West,” and “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour.”
Buy Stevens’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101911689/
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“Notes from the Grid“ is a series of small essays on how we have come to handle things like culture, technology, privacy, education, history, and so much else.
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A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Headlights,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.”
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Jung’s Great Dream - A reading from Jung’s memoir of his famous house dream, that gave him his first inkling of what he would later call the “collective unconscious.”
Buy the books from this episode: Memories, Dreams, Reflections,” by C. G. Jung: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679723951/
“A Life of Jung,” by Ronald Hayman: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FKTE24A/
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Notes from the Grid is a series of small essays on how we have come to handle things like culture, technology, privacy, education, history, and so much else.
The audio from Kurt Cobain is taken from AJ Schnack's 2006 documentary, "Kurt Cobain: About a Son." Buy the documentary here: https://www.amazon.com/Kurt-Cobain-About-Son/dp/B000WTZ6M6/
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A reading from Mary Pipher’s 1994 book, “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.”
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R. S. Thomas’s early poem, “Affinity”
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Louise Gluck’s poem “Messengers,” read on the morning she received the Nobel Prize in literature
Buy her "Collected Poems: 1962-2012," here: https://www.amazon.com/Poems-1962-2012-Louise-Gl%C3%BCck/dp/0374534098/
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