William Carlos Williams' Thursday
How many poems celebrate a poet's dreams? This one doesn't. Here I perform Williams' poem with...
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Podcasts de modernism
Written by Mary Carolyn Davies, a little-known woman from the early Modernist era of 1915, I...
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Readers of these notes may recall a discussion of the theory that Emily Dickinson’s reclusive...
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Sometime around the end of the 19th Century, a century that had seen accelerating change in...
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Returning now to our discussion of Modernism, that early 20th Century artistic movement that gave...
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The lives, outside of art, of artists bear only a mysterious resemblance to their work. The...
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Last episode I presented Ezra Pound’s rant about the society that lead so many to their deaths in...
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Today’s episode “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” has a very complicated history. I can’t...
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Just after the start of the 20th Century two teenagers met at the University of Pennsylvania. One...
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On the Troop Ship to Gallipoli
In the notes to the past few episodes I’ve mentioned how Ezra Pound was more than an exemplary...
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I’m going to ask you to not read these notes yet. Listen to today’s audio piece first at least...
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Imagine this for the background and education for a poet. The poet is committed from a young age...
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Today’s piece uses a very short poem about a famous doomed adventurer written by a too-little...
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I return today to the work of pioneering English modernist poet T. E. Hulme, he of the entire...
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I was talking with my wife this weekend. She’s reading a memoir about current military...
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100 years ago, a WWI German artillery shell ended the life of T. E. Hulme, the man sparked off...
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Let’s leave off those modernists of the era around WWI for a while, and move to a few songs about...
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Obscurity in modernist poetry is a funny issue. What makes some writing hard to grasp, difficult...
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By title this would be the perfect piece for today, though it does not describe the axis of these...
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How did you spend your extra hour given to us by the Daylight Savings Time changeover? Some spent...
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