Show Notes
Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss MAP: COLLECTED AND LAST POEMS by Wislawa Szymborska, and chat about their current reading.
For our next episode, we will discuss MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD by Mary McCarthy. We would love to have you read along with us, and listen in on our conversation coming to you in October or November, scheduling and consistency being our strong points.
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Books mentioned:
Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak The Memoir of an Anti-Hero by Kornel Filipowicz Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska, illustrated by Beatrice Gasca Queirazza Chenneville by Paulette Jiles News of the World by Paulette Jiles Simon the Fiddler by Paulete Jiles Come Back in September by Darryl Pinckney The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s by Alexander Nemerov Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell The End of August by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
Just in case you don't have a copy of Map on hand, here are some links to the main poems discussed in this episode:
"Love at First Sight" - https://poets.org/poem/love-first-sight "Allegro ma Non Troppo" - http://mrhoyesibwebsite.com/Poetry%20Texts/Szymborska/The%20Poems/Allegro%20Ma%20Non%20Troppo.htm "In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself" - https://www.best-poems.net/poem/praise-feeling-bad-about-yourself-by-wislawa-szymborska.html "Consolation" - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/48271/consolation-56d2295fb70bb Szymborska's Nobel Lecture - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1996/szymborska/lecture/ Visit us online at onebrightbook.com. Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes Dorian's blog: https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca's newsletter: https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.
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