NB: Yes, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” is only kind of Mozart. Whatever. Also, yes, I over-hyped the length of this episode, since I ended up doing another edit after recording the intro and outro and got it down to a more reasonable length. Also whatever.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Poet, critic, and editor Jonathan Farmer

– Jonathan’s essay “The Way We Talk About Poetry Is the Problem”

– Jonathan’s essay “When I Mean I”

– Alan Shapiro’s book “That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration”

– Brian Platzer

– Alice Allan

– The Glomar Denial

– William Logan

– Pascal’s Wager

– The new Dune

– Prisoners

– Winter Light

– Albert Camus’ book “The Myth of Sisyphus”

– Matthew Zapruder’s book “Why Poetry”

– Craig Morgan Teicher’s book “We Begin in Gladness”

– Stephanie Burt’s book “Don’t Read Poetry”

– Descriptivism vs. Prescriptivism

– George Herbert’s poem “Jordan I”

– Plato’s “Republic”

– Christopher Marlowe’s play “Doctor Faustus”

– Thomas Wyatt’s poem “Whoso List to Hunt”

– Paul Giamatti’s pinot noir monologue in “Sideways”

– C. S. Lewis’ book “Mere Christianity”

– Dave Smith

– Stephen Kampa

– Philip K. Dick’s theory of kipple

– Sarah Vap

– Stephen King’s book “The Gunslinger”

– Wayne Miller’s essay “When Talking About Poetry Online Goes Very Wrong”

– Philip Larkin’s poem “Aubade”

– Randall Jarrell’s poem “90 North”

– D. W. Winnicott

– Maggie Nelson’s book “The Argonauts”

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