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- Ted Hughes: “February 17th”A reading of Ted Hughes’s poem, “February 17th,” from his 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.”Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Ted-Hughes/dp/0374529655Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support5 min
- Louise Bogan: "The Alchemist"
A reading of Louise Bogan's poem, "The Alchemist.”
Buy Bogan’s collected poems, "Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968," here: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Estuaries-Poems-1923-1968/dp/0374524610
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.
---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support2 min - Eavan Boland: Three Poems from "Against Love Poetry"
A reading of three of Eavan Boland’s poems from her collection “Against Love Poetry.” The poems are:
- "Quarantine"
- "Lines for a Thirtieth Wedding Anniversary"
- "Irish Poetry"
That collection, and everything she published from 1967-2008, is included in her New Collected Poems.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.
---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support7 min - Ted Hughes: “Struggle”A reading of Ted Hughes’s poem, “Struggle,” from his 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.”Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Ted-Hughes/dp/0374529655Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support6 min
- The Great Myths #1-3: GilgameshHere are the complete readings I've made from Andrew George's translation of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.In the first, I read about the creation of Enkidu and how, through the sacred prostitute Shamhat, he is civilized and taken out of his life in nature.In the second, I read Enkidu’s deathbed speech, and the dream he has about the Underworld, just before his death.In the third, I read Gilgamesh’s meeting with Utanapishti, who relates the Mesopotamian account of the Flood, and Gilgamesh’s final failure at achieving immortality.Buy Andrew George’s translation here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/Buy NK Sandars’s prose version here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh/dp/014044100X/Buy Stephen Mitchell’s version here: https://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-English-Version-Stephen-Mitchell/dp/0743261690Buy Nahum Sarna’s commentary on Genesis here: https://www.amazon.com/JPS-Torah-Commentary-Nahum-Sarna/dp/0827603266Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support1 hr 39 min
- The Great Myths #3: Gilgamesh & the FloodA final excerpt from Andrew George’s translation of the epic of Gilgamesh. Here, I read Gilgamesh’s meeting with Utanapishti, who relates the Mesopotamian account of the Flood, and with Gilgamesh’s final failure at achieving immortality.Buy Andrew George’s translation here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/Buy NK Sandars’s prose version here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh/dp/014044100X/Buy Stephen Mitchell’s version here: https://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-English-Version-Stephen-Mitchell/dp/0743261690Buy Nahum Sarna’s commentary on Genesis here: https://www.amazon.com/JPS-Torah-Commentary-Nahum-Sarna/dp/0827603266Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support51 min
- The Great Myths #2: Gilgamesh, Enkidu, & the UnderworldAnother excerpt from Andrew George’s translation of the epic of Gilgamesh. Here, I read Enkidu’s deathbed speech, and the dream he has, just before he dies, of the Underworld.Buy Andrew George’s translation here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/Buy NK Sandars’s prose version here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh/dp/014044100X/Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support19 min
- T. S. Eliot: “Preludes”A reading of T. S. Eliot’s poem, “Preludes.”Buy Eliot’s “Collected Poems 1909-1962” here: https://www.amazon.com/T-Eliot-Collected-1909-1962-Centenary/dp/0151189781Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected] and I will remove the episode immediately.---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support8 min
- Ted Hughes: “Rain”A reading of Ted Hughes’s poem, “Rain,” from his 1979 collection, “Moortown Diary.”Buy Hughes’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Ted-Hughes/dp/0374529655Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support5 min
- The Great Myths #1: Gilgamesh BeginsA reading from the beginning of Andrew George’s translation of the epic of Gilgamesh, with a long prologue about what the story means to me. More episodes from Gilgamesh will follow, & this will begin a long series on mythology & religion.Buy Andrew George’s translation here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/Buy NK Sandars’s prose version here: https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh/dp/014044100X/Buy David Ferry’s version here: https://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-New-Rendering-English-Verse/dp/0374523835/Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.---Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support32 min
About Human Voices Wake Us
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The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make, can be emailed to [email protected]. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support
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