Turns out I just really like pop music.

p.s. Since recording this I’ve learned that A. E. Housman rushed out his Last Poems hoping straight boy crush Moses Jackson would read it. Girl, same.

Show notes

• No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
• Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
• The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
• Mibu Tadamine
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• The In Our Time ep on Fitzgerald’s bitter motivations for translating said Rubaiyat
• Anne Sexton’s For My Lover, Returning to His Wife (still no clue what an ‘aggie’ is)
• Ouyang Yu’s Self Publishing
• Morgan Parker’s Now More Than Ever, When a Man I Love Jerks Off in My Bed Next to Me and Falls Asleep & Magical Negro
• Chats with Justin Clemens & Laurie Duggan
• Laurie’s The Epigrams of Martial
• pov ur anne sexton