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Elijah Perseus Blumov

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"Lachrimae Antiquae Novae" by Geoffrey Hill
Yesterday
"Lachrimae Antiquae Novae" by Geoffrey Hill
Soundtrack to this episodeNote: My use of the phrase "men without chests" and Matthew's were completely coincidental! Text of poem:Lachrimae Antiquae NovaeCrucified Lord, so naked to the world,you live unseen within that nakedness,consigned by proxy to the judas-kissof our devotion, bowed beneath the gold,with re-enactments, penances foretold:scentings of love across a wildernessof retrospection, wild and objectlesslongings incarnate in the carnal child.Beautiful for themselves the icons fade;the lions and the hermits disappear.Triumphalism feasts on empty dread,fulfilling triumphs of the festal year.We find you wounded by the token spear.Dominion is swallowed with your blood.Topics discussed:Subscribe to Versecraft on Substack!The SLEERICKETS Geoffrey Hill episode-Poetic accessibility, pro and contra-John Dowland's "Lachrimae"-My episode on Eliot's East Coker IV-Choriambs??-Scansion vs. delivery-Hill's vorticism-John Henry Newman's "illative sense" -The Wordsworthian cult of the child-Plato's "Meno" dialogue-Childhood neuroplasticity-Psychedelic rewiring of the brain (see Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind")-The Anglican tension-"The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis-Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"-Old tears renewedSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
"Nor Strange It Is" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Feb 4 2025
"Nor Strange It Is" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem:Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bondsOf flesh and time, if virtue's self awhileGleam dull like sunless ice; whilst graceful guile—Blood-flecked like hematite or diamondsWith a red inward spark—to reconcileBeauty and evil seems and correspondsSo well with good that the mind joys to haveFull wider jet and scope nor swings and sleepsForever in one cradle wearily:Like those vast weeds that off d'Acunha's isleWash with the surf and flap their mighty frondsMournfully to the dipping of the wave,Yet cannot be disrupted from their deepsBy the whole heave and settle of the sea.Topics discussed in this episode include:-That time Italy almost got involved in the Civil War-Transcendentalism (or not)-Hawthorne continues to demonstrate his good taste-Yvor Winters? Witter Bynner? Who names these people? -Previous feature N. Scott Momaday-Nonce sonnets!-Antinomian ruminations-Virtue vs. Goodness-The cradle and the weed-Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"-Pesky dualities-Surfing the TaoSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
10 More Poems I Like
Dec 3 2024
10 More Poems I Like
Soundtrack to this episodeThe original 10 Poems I Like"New Advances in Quitting Poetry" on SLEERICKETS"This is not Exactly What I Mean" on the SLEERICKETS Secret ShowMy Dante essay at Voegelin View!Poems discussed in this episode:"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats"Miriam Tazewell" by John Crowe Ransom"I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines" by Edna St. Vincent Millay"November Cotton Flower" by Jean Toomer"On Being Human" by C.S. Lewis"The Fall of Rome" by W.H. Auden"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop"Our Lady of Walsingham" (from "A Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket") by Robert Lowell"St. Judas" by James Wright"Orthodox Christmas Eve" by Gail WhiteSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
"The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clark
Nov 6 2024
"The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clark
Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-Listen to my talk on Melville here-Listen to my poetry reading with Dan Brown here-Outsider poetry-The Education of Henry Adams-Metrical hijinks-The inherent negations of blindness-"Durer: Insbrook, 1495" by Ern Malley-"Lycidas" by John Milton-Forging a new sensibility in identitarian poetry Text of poem:The Education of the Blind Poet; Or, Ars Poetica Ending with a Line from Milton When I was 9 they taught me how to lookat someone as they spoke though I could seenothing: it's polite they said & I was, lookI'm staring at the nothing of you, see?My Nothing reader, pelted in your silence:silent in History I drilled my lackof stare into the history-shaped silenceof the confidential blackboard's black.The teacher, standing slightly to its rightscrawled her timelines onto its cold chalk down.See, teacher, have I not been studious: "Write what's on the board." & I noted nothing down.My No-Thing reader, ear pressed to the boardof words, how has your face become hers? mutelight stained her hair as she addressed the board,& I presided over absence, mute.All blind things learn to cleave to absence:stiff-uniformed moles shoulder their chalk-blank domeof earth. O Teacher to you I was absence,you who'd only bring yourself to speak óf measking always Does hé need help? in a voicehushed & mailed by its pity, pitywordscringing between your jaws. I knew that voiceas my inheritance: these blind mouths full of words.Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
"The Last Act" by John Martin Finlay
Oct 23 2024
"The Last Act" by John Martin Finlay
Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem:The Last Act‘Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved, Now leaves him. It is too often only close to death,or utter failure, when the mind is heldto truth, we see the outlines of the gods,those whom we loved but never realized. Above us in a void burnt-out and cold,at unfamiliar heights their forms returnlike ghosts to move across the final night,remote and unappeased in our collapse.There is no bitterness in facing them. The heart that fatally kept them deprived,and saw them hostile to the living blood,will pay in blood its error, every vein. In what is not the gods are reconfirmed,the candor of their presence briefly seen. The tragedy leaves nothing else but that. Then they are gone. The music underground,the quiet terror of its shifting source,its echoes vanishing moves in their place. Topics discussed in this episode include:-Come see my Melville lecture tomorrow on Zoom!-New shirts!!-The precariousness of literary preservation, and our inestimable losses-My conversation with Tim Steele-Wiseblood Books! -Finlay's Collected Prose here and Collected Poetry here-"The Wayward Thomist" by James Matthew Wilson (COMING SOON!) -The gnosticism of Modernity -"Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin-"Antony and Cleopatra" by Willy Shakes-"The God Abandons Antony" by Constantine Cavafy-The nature of the tragic-Negative/Apophatic Theology (Via Negativa)-"That We Should Not Be Considered Happy Until We Are Dead" by Michel de Montaigne-Juan de la Cruz-hamartia, hubris, sin-Ananke and the Music of the SpheresSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
Receivers of the Gods: A Conversation with The Classical Outlook
Oct 8 2024
Receivers of the Gods: A Conversation with The Classical Outlook
Soundtrack to this episodeLink to poems! Read the Classical Outlook poetry issue here! NEW MERCH HERETo receive a link to the Critical Path Symposium, follow the email link at the bottom right of this pageTopics discussed in this episode include:-Philip Walsh and Rachel Hadas!-The Classical Outlook!-Classical Reception Studies-"44 Pastorals" by Rachel Hadas-Prosimetra/Haibun-"Prose of Departure" by James Merrill-"Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms" ed. by David Lehman-"Personal Best: Makers On Their Poems That Matter Most"-In praise of postludes-Rachel’s Euripides and Dionysiaca-"Achilles and Odysseus” by Susan McLean-“Mimesis” by Erich Auerbach-“Imaginary Conversations” by Walter Savage Landor-“The Songs of the Kings” by Barry Unsworth-“Circe” by Madeleine Miller-“The King Must Die” by Mary Renault-“Iphigenia” dir. Michael Cacoyannis-“The Silence of the Girls” by Pat Barker-The Feminist re-telling of Classical myths trend-“Liber Tertius Decimus” by Julia Griffin-“After the Fall” by David Katz-“The Mazemaker” by Michael Ayrton-“Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths” by Charlotte Higgins-“Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In” by Henry Eliot-“The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges-“The Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder-“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden-D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-“Theseus and the Minotaur” by Edwin Muir-“Megalopolis” dir. Francis Ford Coppola-The Classical Outlook takes Princeton!Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
WURSTKRAFT HOLIDAYSPEZIAL
Oct 1 2024
WURSTKRAFT HOLIDAYSPEZIAL
Als Zarathustra dreissig Jahr alt war, verliess er seine Heimat und den See seiner Heimat und ging in das Gebirge. Hier genoss er seines Geistes und seiner Einsamkeit und wurde dessen zehn Jahr nicht müde. Endlich aber verwandelte sich sein Herz,—und eines Morgens stand er mit der Morgenröthe auf, trat vor die Sonne hin und sprach zu ihr also: „Du grosses Gestirn! Was wäre dein Glück, wenn du nicht Die hättest, welchen du leuchtest! Zehn Jahre kamst du hier herauf zu meiner Höhle: du würdest deines Lichtes und dieses Weges satt geworden sein, ohne mich, meinen Adler und meine Schlange. Aber wir warteten deiner an jedem Morgen, nahmen dir deinen Überfluss ab und segneten dich dafür. Siehe! Ich bin meiner Weisheit überdrüssig, wie die Biene, die des Honigs zu viel gesammelt hat, ich bedarf der Hände, die sich ausstrecken. Ich möchte verschenken und austheilen, bis die Weisen unter den Menschen wieder einmal ihrer Thorheit und die Armen einmal ihres Reichthums froh geworden sind. Dazu muss ich in die Tiefe steigen: wie du des Abends thust, wenn du hinter das Meer gehst und noch der Unterwelt Licht bringst, du überreiches Gestirn! Ich muss, gleich dir, untergehen, wie die Menschen es nennen, zu denen ich hinab will. So segne mich denn, du ruhiges Auge, das ohne Neid auch ein allzugrosses Glück sehen kann! Segne den Becher, welcher überfliessen will, dass das Wasser golden aus ihm fliesse und überallhin den Abglanz deiner Wonne trage! Siehe! Dieser Becher will wieder leer werden, und Zarathustra will wieder Mensch werden.“ —Also begann Zarathustra’s Untergang.Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
"On the Anthropic Principle" by Frederick Turner
Sep 24 2024
"On the Anthropic Principle" by Frederick Turner
Mea culpa: "The Neural Lyre" was published in 1983, not 1994. Don't know why I said that! Read today's poem hereTopics discussed in this episode include:-William Paley's watchmaker analogy-Problems with teleological arguments-Brandon Carter's Anthropic Principle-Multiverse/many worlds theory-John Archibald Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle-"It from bit"-George Berkeley's Idealism-Vedanta Hinduism-"The Anthropic Cosmological Principle" -Barrow and Tipler's Final Anthropic Principle-"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's theology of the noosphere and omega point-"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor-Turner's essay, "The Neural Lyre" -Turner's book, "Natural Classicism"-Turner's epic poems: The New World, Genesis, Apocalypse-The transtemporal community of humanitySupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
Gloves of Mettle: An Interview with Timothy Steele
Sep 11 2024
Gloves of Mettle: An Interview with Timothy Steele
Mea culpa: Apologies for my faint audio in the beginning! Soundtrack to this episode Second soundtrack, because... I had to. Topics discussed in this episode include:-Thom Gunn and some of his literary interests (Henry James, George Macdonald, Saki, Ovid, etc.)-My episode on Thom Gunn-My episode on Timothy Steele-Read The Classical Outlook!!-Writing from experience vs. writing from ideas-"Missing Measures" by Timothy Steele-All the Fun's In How You Say a Thing, 2nd Edition!-Desert Places by Robert Frost-How form informs content-The importance of rhythmic modulation-"The Audible Reading of Poetry" by Yvor Winters-"Versification: A Short Introduction" by James McAuley-The 20th century metrical Renaissance-Bring back verse epistles! -Yvor Winters's criticism: pro and contra-The Plain Style-The Stanford School: Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, J.V. Cunningham, Edgar Bowers, Helen Pinkerton, Thom Gunn, etc. -X.J. Kennedy-Palo Alto poets vs. San Francisco poets-The Curious Case of Thom Gunn-What Winters and Poe have in common-The Smith, Wilson, Clark reading-"Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of Steele"-Waiting for the Storm by Timothy Steele Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
"Phenomena, Noumena, Startling Sparrows" by Stephen Kampa
Aug 27 2024
"Phenomena, Noumena, Startling Sparrows" by Stephen Kampa
Soundtrack to this episode (it's Stephen Kampa!)Topics discussed in this episode include:-Go read New Verse Review!-Go listen to my talk on SLEERICKETS about Horace's Ars Poetica!-Go listen to the mighty Fer de Lance!-The Sleerickets Stephen Kampa episode-Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason-From Transcendental Idealism to Transcendentalism-Romanticism as post-Kantian reaction -Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Freud, Coleridge, Emerson, etc. etc.-Contemptus Mundi-The inauthenticity of the nihilist everyman-The Protestant anti-rationalist tradition-Spooky Calvinist symbolism + German Romanticism + Hinduism 101 + Patriotism = Transcendentalism-Death and Love conceived ornithologically-More dialectical poems! Text of poem:Phenomena, Noumena, Startling SparrowsFaced with the world mistaken for the world,I’m not confused: it seems so sensibleTo call the loose, cyclonic pulse of leavesOn sidewalks “physics,” and not a miracle. I understand a prophet undeceives Himself when, limping by the roadkill curledBeside the curb, he thinks theodicyInadequate for even bestial pain,Or when, dispersing the loud shroud of fliesThat swaddles it, he wonders how the saneEscape their own conclusions. Sense defiesEvery compendium of mystery. And if I’m senseless, then, for holding thisWorld most enlightening when its premisesGrow thinnest, I am glad to be struck dumb.Look: fireflies punctuate the night with greenEpigrams on love, petunias keenFor the dead possum, and electrons hum Concentric hymns to probabilityWhile leaf-swirls sing in fractal harmony.Best is this line of sparrows that have shown Their utter distance from the disapprovingCaws of the crows by fleshing out a movingEllipsis leading into the unknown. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
A Lover's Quarrel with Robert Frost
Jul 16 2024
A Lover's Quarrel with Robert Frost
Soundtrack to this episode Topics discussed in this episode include:-The Beatles-Beatles documentary "Get Back" -"The Other Frost" by Randall Jarrell-"Robert Frost: or, the Spiritual Drifter as Poet" by Yvor Winters-"The Other Other Frost" by William Logan-"The Themes of Robert Frost" by Robert Penn Warren-"A History of Modern Poetry" by David Perkins-Phalaecian hendacasyllabics-Catullus I -Plato's "Symposium" Frost poems mentioned/discussed:-The Road Not Taken-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening-Mending Wall-Fire and Ice-Nothing Gold Can Stay-For Once, Then, Something-Design-Mowing-After Apple-Picking-Birches-The Most of It-The Silken Tent-Come In-Neither Out Far Nor In Deep-To a Moth Seen in Winter-Home BurialSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
Guardians of Matter: Timothy Steele's "Anima" and the Pathetic Fallacy
Jul 3 2024
Guardians of Matter: Timothy Steele's "Anima" and the Pathetic Fallacy
Soundtrack to this episodeFor text of poem, please see episode transcript at versecraft.buzzsprout.com.Topics discussed in this episode include: -C'est Moi, MBS's response to my episode Giving the Devil His Due-My review of Matthew's book, "Midlife," entitled The Poet Laureate of Crushed Dreams-My episode on the Pathetic Fallacy with Matthew and Alice-"Of the Pathetic Fallacy" by John Ruskin-Who're you callin "pathetic?" -Pro and Contra-Figurative language vs. the fallacy-The new edition of "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" -I'm interviewing Tim! -Watch the reading with David, Matthew, and Ryan here! -The Winters circle-The New Formalism-The pathetic fallacy is coming from inside the house! -Supreme fictions and noble lies-God, Machine, and Man-Animism and Shinto-The Jungian anima and the feminine turn-In pursuit of AgapeSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero
Jun 19 2024
Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero
Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-"The Roots of Romanticism" by Isaiah Berlin-The Jena Set and the Schlegels-"Rousseau and Romanticism" by Irving Babbitt-Harold Bloom-"Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin-"Classic, Romantic, and Modern" by Jacques Barzun-Inferno IV and XXVI-Prometheus Bound (probably not by Aeschylus)-"Paradise Lost" by the GOAT -The spiritual paradox of Romanticism-Turns out limbo parties aren't so fun-Nostalgia for Christianity-Romantic Irony: Metatextual and Anti-Heroic-Literature as self-exorcism-Unambiguous Ambivalence of Judgement -"The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky-"Hegel's Theory of Tragedy" by A.C. Bradley-Varieties of Anti-Hero-Literary alchemy Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)