Ep 244: Possible Horrible Truth, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul
– To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
– Greater Metropolitan Shatador, ft. Victoria Moul
– Jenny, the Halloween Spy by Lillie Patterson
– The Statue of Responsibility (the one about Man’s Search for Meaning)
– The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
– Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
– The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
– The Optimists by Brian Platzer
– The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
– The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe
– The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
– Inferno I, 32 by Jorge Luis Borges
– The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft (the one where Elijah talks with Alice about The Denial of Death)
– St. Judas by James Wright
– The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Part 1 & Part 2
– Tichborne’s Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne
– Happy were he could finish forth his fate by Robert Devereaux
– Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope
– Ars Poetica by Horace
– Epode ii by Horace
– The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
– Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
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
