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
