In this episode, I spoke with Cody-Rose Clevidence about their latest publication, Aux Arc / Trypt Ich, out with Nightboat Books. We dug into language, exploring motif, grief, love—all that good stuff.

Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of BEAST FEAST (2014) and Flung/Throne (2018), both from Ahsahta Press, Listen My Friend This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night from The Song Cave and Aux Arc / Trypt Ich as well as several handsome chapbooks (flowers and cream, NION, garden door press, Auric). They live in the Arkansas Ozarks with their medium sized but lion-hearted dog, Birdie and an absolute lunatic cat.

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Poets, books, etc. mentioned in this episode:

• Cody-Rose Clevidence's BEAST FEAST
• Turquoise waters of the Ozarks
• "Apophatic" was the word I was trying to remember! I can't read this work because of the paywall, but it seems like it might be useful in exploring Manley Hopkins's contemplations of God.
• H.D.
• Homer
• Algernon Charles Swinburne
• William Wordsworth
• English literature's Romanticism
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Stephen Taylor's Building Thoreau's Cabin
• Jerome Rothenberg (editor), Technicians of the Sacred
• Jerome Rothenberg (editor), Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas
• Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding of Language
• Guy Deutscher's Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
• George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's Metaphors We Live By

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Host and Producer: Avren Keating

Sound of Waves Breaking: "Arkansas" by John Linnell. At last, one half of TMBG makes it onto the pod.