Ep 135: The Most Embarrassing Episode
NB: Oh man, I should have clarified this during the episode, but the ex-girlfriend in the poem is NOT the ex-girlfriend in the anecdote. Different exes. Jesus Christ, the fact that this is a note is even necessary. As James Wright once observed while lying in a hammock at William Duffy’s farm in Pine Island, Minnesota…
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– My book Midlife now exists.
– My Rattlecast thing went well, I think?
– Anseo by Paul Muldoon
– Promises of Gold by Jose Olivarez
– World Too Loud to Hear by Stephen Kampa
– Cracks in the Invisible by Stephen Kampa
– Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– Il Estraneo by Ryan Wilson (no copy online, so this is a link to Brian Brodeur’s essay that discusses it)
– Authority by Ryan Wilson
– My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
– Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
– Saint Worm by Hailey Leithauser
– The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse ed. & trans. Christopher Childers
– The Nature of Things Fragile by Peter Vertacnik
– Modern Love, Ancient War by William Logan
– The Nickname by Stephen Kampa (no copy online, appears in Cracks in the Invisible)
– Vellum by Chelsea Woodard
– The Best by MBS
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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