Show Notes
NB: My confusing mention of Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death mistakenly gave Alice the impression that the book is by Freud. Instead it’s just heavily founded in the Freudian vision of human experience. Also, “The Deeper in” is totally not an a cappella song. Also, Matthew was a tax collector, not a moneylender. Other than those, we made no errors whatsoever!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love by Paul Guest James Merrill Greg Williamson Geoffrey Hill Capital Improvements: The Initial-Caps Wars by Maryann Corbett The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden Donald Duck’s Lament by Paul Guest The Roud Folk Song Index Roud Folk Song 4933 Conversation with Death The Pardoner’s Tale Everyman The Unquiet Grave The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson Death, an Ode by John Forbes Matthew's poem Ankou recently republished in The New Stylus Which is the True One? by Charles Baudelaire The Denial of Death by Sigmund Freud William James Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Alcestis Horace i.iv and iv.vii The Seventh Seal Secret Show Ep 108. How Are We Happy? (on Paradise Lost) The Barron Field Experience
Secret Show notes Aubade by Philip Larkin So, We’ll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron Untamed Daughter by A.M. Juster Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing Endures by Countee Culleen Alice in the Looking Glass by A.E. Stallings Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost The Deeper In by The Drive By Truckers This living hand, now warm and capable by John Keats Twelfth Night The Raindrop Prelude by Chopin This is America by Childish Gambino Dance Music by The Mountain Goats Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning Banksy Pieta The Calling of St Matthew by Caravaggio T.O. Brandon
Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen – Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – Matt Wall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: Yes, yes, yes, of course I meant to mention Putin. Putin also, yes.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.