NB: My confusing mention of Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death mistakenly gave Alice the impression that the book is by Freud. Instead it’s just heavily founded in the Freudian vision of human experience. Also, “The Deeper in” is totally not an a cappella song. Also, Matthew was a tax collector, not a moneylender. Other than those, we made no errors whatsoever!

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith

The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love by Paul Guest

James Merrill

Greg Williamson

Geoffrey Hill

Capital Improvements: The Initial-Caps Wars by Maryann Corbett

The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden

Donald Duck’s Lament by Paul Guest

The Roud Folk Song Index

Roud Folk Song 4933 Conversation with Death

The Pardoner’s Tale

Everyman

The Unquiet Grave

The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson

Death, an Ode by John Forbes

Matthew's poem Ankou recently republished in The New Stylus

Which is the True One? by Charles Baudelaire 

The Denial of Death by Sigmund Freud

William James 

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Alcestis

Horace i.iv and iv.vii

The Seventh Seal

Secret Show Ep 108. How Are We Happy? (on Paradise Lost)

The Barron Field Experience

Secret Show notes

Aubade by Philip Larkin

So, We’ll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron

Untamed Daughter by A.M. Juster

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing Endures by Countee Culleen

Alice in the Looking Glass by A.E. Stallings

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

The Deeper In by The Drive By Truckers

This living hand, now warm and capable by John Keats

Twelfth Night

The Raindrop Prelude by Chopin

This is America by Childish Gambino

Dance Music by The Mountain Goats

Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning

Banksy

Pieta

The Calling of St Matthew by Caravaggio

T.O. Brandon

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Chris Childers

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

– Matt Wall

– Steve Knepper

– Helena Feder

– David Yezzi

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov

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