Shake the Sphere with Sid

EP4 - Jerry Harp


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Sid talks with Jerry Harp, a teacher much in demand at Lewis and Clark College. His four books of poetry reveal an artist of extraordinary sensitivity, and Jerry uses that sensitivity in his study For Us What Music: The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice. It was his role as the Friar in a production of Romeo and Juliet that led him to examine the complexity of that character, then write about the experience in “Uncertain Text: Student and Teacher Find Their Way Onstage in Romeo and Juliet,” which in turn has led to a full-length study and reassessment of Shakespeare’s early tragedy.

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Shake the Sphere with SidBy Sidney Homan