Between Oceans and Gold Teeth

In which Joel and Basie talk about the death sijo of Seong Sam-mun, war, poise, and evergreen trees.

Special apologies to the few of you who listened before Basie realized she didn't mix the left and right audio tracks together.

Special thanks to the Monroe County Public Library where this was recorded.

We're (sorta) citing our sources now:

The Wikipedia pages on death poems, the Six Martyred Ministers, Seong Sam-mun and Jeong Mong-ju (this last page is where you can read the other sijo we talked about).

Classical Korean poetry : more than 600 verses since the 12th century; selected and translated with an introduction by Jaihiun J. Kim.

The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries: edited by Roland Greene & Stephen Cushman

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In which Joel and Basie talk about Yuan Mei's Self-banter on Arboriculture and Su Shi's Admiring Peony-blossoms at the Monastery of Good Omens.

Special thanks to Yuanshuai Cui for reading these in Chinese for us (with Admiring Peony-Blossoms at the Monastery of Good Omens First, and Self-Banter on Arboriculture second), and thanks as well to Monroe County Public Library where this was recorded.

We're (sorta) citing our sources now:

The Wikipedia pages on the Shijing, the Tang Dynasty, Yuan Mei and Su Shi

A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: translated by Dr. John A Turner, compiled and edited by John J Deeney

The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries: edited by Roland Greene & Stephen Cushman

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In which Basie and Joel discuss Lola Ridge's The Woman with Jewels, among other things.

Thanks to Monroe County Public Library, where we recorded this podcast.

The Woman With Jewels, in case you want to read it: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/woman-jewels

Rachel Wiley's 10 Honest Thoughts on Being Loved by a Skinny Boy, in case you want to hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRFOTqTicvY

Meghan Whalen Turner's The Theif: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060824976/the-thief

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In which Joel and Basie discuss Francesco Petrarca's sonnet "Now that the sky and earth and wind are still" among other things.

Special thanks to Thomas Reed and Paul Rodes.

Notes special to this episode: At about the 16th minute, our audio got weird, so we lost (and therefore you lose) some of the discussion about the interpretation of lines 12 - 14 through viewing the woman of the poem as as sort of God figure, and interpreting those same lines with the Catholic (because yes, Petrach was a Catholic) God as the God figure. The word Basie can't remember is Quatorzain, defined as any 14 line poem or stanza. A sonnet is always a quatorzain, a quatorzain need not always be a sonnet.

Additional links:

About hendecasyllable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendecasyllable

The alternate translation (it's 164): https://theinkbrain.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/petrarch-21-164-and-177/

This poem is in the public domain.

This is the first episode of Between Oceans and Gold Teeth, in which Joel and Basie talk about William Shakespeare's 14th sonnet "Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck." If you'd like to read it, you can find it here: http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/14

On another note, the title and author of the book that Basie forgets is How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch.

Thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy.

This poem is in the public domain.