Topics discussed in this episode include:

 -The "Plain Style" 
-Epigrams
-"Stoner" by John Williams 
-Stanzaic asymmetricity 
-Wacky rhyme schemes as evidence of revision 
-Stanzaic palindromes 
-The triplet as the couplet of couplets 
-Ladies (feminine endings) last 
-The curious case of iambic tetrameter 
-A gloss of glose 
-Plato, the worst third-wheel ever, returns 
-Earthy kids 
-"Love" as heuristic 
-Western love poets as pseudo-incels 
-Christianity is Platonism for the masses 
-Do we ever really know the ones we love? 
-Plato gets dumped, again 
-Hume slides in the DMs, gets curved 
-Duns Scotus lookin like a snack tho 
-Scotistic realism 
-Plato's epistemology in the Theaetetus 
-Amor Vincit Philosophia 

Text of the poem: 

The Metaphysical Amorist

You are the problem I propose, 
my dear, the text my musings glose: 
I call you for convenience love. 
By definition you’re a cause 
inferred by necessary laws— 
you are so to the saints above. 

But in this shadowy lower life 
I sleep with a terrestrial wife 
and earthy children I beget. 
Love is a fiction I must use, 
a privilege I can abuse, 
and sometimes something I forget. 

Now, in the heavenly other place 
Love is in the eternal mind 
the luminous form whose shade she is 
a ghost discarnate, thought defined. 
She was so to my early bliss, 
she is so while I comprehend 
the form my senses apprehend, 
and in the end she will be so. 

Her whom my hands embrace I kiss, 
her whom my mind infers I know. 
The one exists in time and space 
and as she was she will not be; 
The other is in her own grace 
and is She is eternally. 

Plato! you shall not plague my life. 
I married a terrestrial wife. 
And Hume! She is not mere sensation 
in sequence of observed relation. 
She has two forms— ah, thank you, Duns!— 
I know her in both ways at once. 
I knew her, yes, before I knew her, 
and by both means I must construe her, 
and none among you shall undo her. 

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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:
 
-The joy of comparing like-minded poems 
-The Platonic dilemma of romantic love 
-Heroic couplets 
-The Problem of Universals 
-Plato 101 
-The contemptus mundi of Platonism 
-The Renaissance vogue for Platonism 
-Petrarch and the legacy of the Western love lyric 
-Poetic structure as the mirror of thought structure 
-Marriage is inherently anti-Platonic 
-Plato vs. Aristotle 
-Deduction vs. Induction 
-Malachi, Heraclitus, and the Buddha 
-Cyclical vs. Linear enlightenment 
-Marriage as spiritual practice 

Text of poem: 

Marriage As A Problem of Universals

For Meera and Navin Govil 

Marriage is where 
the large abstractions we profess 
are put gently in their small place— 
the holist’s stare 
in love with Man has managed less 
than eyes that love one aging face. 

Marriage believes 
the universals we desire 
are children of a worldly care— 
while Plato grieves 
for stasis, the refining fire 
men pass through is the lives they share. 

Marriages move 
between the symbol and life’s facts, 
from Beauty to this troubled face— 
though what we love 
is Truth, Truth flares and fades in acts 
of local, unrecorded grace. 

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Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My thanks for (past and future) rating and reviewing! 
-Art vs. Craft 
-The spectrum of creativity 
-Craft as all making, not rote production 
-The Romantic fallacy of art without craft 
-The case to abolish "art." 
-Utilitarian vs. Rhetorical craft 
-Horace's "Dulce Et Utile" 
-The secret third thing that Horatio had not dreamt of in his philosophy 
-The three functions of art 
-The Hedonic function ;) 
-Sensory, Cognitive, Emotional Pleasure
-Let me teach you about the Noetic function. 
-Insight vs. Sensitization
-What do YOU think of the Dialectical function? 
-Functional symbiosis 
-Individual functions in excess and isolation 
-A rubric for artistic evaluation 
-Collectivist Art (for us!) 
-Individualist Art (for me!) 
-Humanist Art (for the universal spirit of humankind!)

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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

 -My life story
-Poetic "throat-clearing" 
-Curtal sonnets 
-Why sonnets are the supreme lyric form 
-English vs. Italian sonnets 
-I'm basically Aristotle 
-The inscrutability of life and the nihilist's overreaction 
-The tragic mistake behind global warming and the meat industry 
-What does autochthonic mean?? 
-Sartre can eat my shorts 
-Aseity 
-The meaning of meaning 
-Semiotics, as if I wasn't pretentious enough 
-The impossibility of an immanent being perceiving or understanding a transcendent being 
-Science is not revelation 
-Apophatic theology 
-The burden of intelligence 
-It is what it is, and that means something 
-Lunar action at a distance 
-God as Solar Eclipse 
-My title is clever, guys. 

Text of poem: 

The Eclipse of Meaning 

The world may be unyielding, mute, deaf, blind 
to its own cries, and still no claim will hold 
so bold to preach no meaning— meaning meaning 
autochthonic being we can find. 
This truth, of which we cannot speak, we learn 
as much through logic as sublime emotion; 
we drown amidst excess of thoughts, but know 
that something sets these tides of ours in motion. 
Some terrifying moon in this abyss… 
dark forever, but too bright to miss. 

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Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The excellent poetry podcast Sleerickets, by MBS 
-The four kinds of written poetry 
-Toward a definition of "free verse" 
-Loose patterns and motley patterns 
-The debate over Robert Hayden 
-Hayden puts the verse in universal 
-How poetry can (and can't) change the world 
-The structure of a bullfight, of a poem 
-The Garden of Earthly Delights 
-Catalectic lines 
-Enter the Minotaur 
-Are we human, or are we bull-dancer? 
-The aestheticization of violence 
-The story of Veronica 
-Action sequins 
-The Lord of the Flies and the sexiness of murder 
-Are we laughing at truth, with truth, or being laughed at? 
-La Corrida as the Trinity, or, another kind of papal bull 
-Jesus's jock cousin, Mithras 
-Wagner/Freud's Thanatos Drive 
-Masculine angst, featuring Belmonte and Hemingway 
-Meter is back, and it feels so good. 
-Bullfight as tragic religious ritual 
-Box office details 
-The (possible) meaning of Ole! 
-Spoiler: the bull is Jesus. Muy original. 
-Stevens, Hemingway, and Heinlein on the value of death 
-Beauty the end, cruelty the means 

Text of poem: 

La Corrida 

El Toro 
From the blind kingdom 
where his horns are law, 

gigantically plunging and charging, 
he enters the clockface labyrinth— 

man-in-beast, creature 
whose guileless power is his doom. 

El Matador 
In the heart of the maze 
whose ritual pathways 
goading lance, bloodflowering dart, 
veronica and sword define, 

the fateful one, fate’s dazzler, 
gleams in suit of lights, 
prepares for sensual death 
his moment of mocking truth. 

In the fiery heart of the maze 
the bullgod moves, 
transfiguring death 
and the wish to die. 

Sol y Sombra 
From all we are yet cannot be 
deliver, oh redeem us now. 

Of all we know and do not wish 
to know, purge oh purge us now. 

Ole! 

Upon the cross of horns 
be crucified for us. 

Die for us that death 
may call us back to life. 

Ole! 

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Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics mentioned in this episode include:

 -My new page on the OPA website! 
-My delusions of TikTok stardom 
-The deliciously old school quality of Pinkerton's mind 
-Melville and Aquinas! 
-Stanzaic structures, stanzaic rhythm 
-Why iambic pentameter reigns supreme 
-Poetry: A marriage of sound and sense 
-Pride-induced dysmorphia 
-Pride as the supreme evil 
-Should I just include Milton on every episode? Yes. 
-The irony of transcendent ambition 
-Satan doesn't have time for your iambic line 
-Satan or Jesus: Who wore flesh better? 
-Ambiguity and multivalence 
-A definition of puns 
-Why puns are lit 
-Penitence, repentance, penance 
-The anatomy of despair, ala Kierkegaard 
-You are, in fact, your own worst enemy. 
-Bilingual pun!! Milton would be proud. 

Text of poem: 

Error Pursued 

Satan in Eden “was constrain’d
into a beast.” 
All of the proud, like him, are pained, 
and you not least, 
to wear the flesh of which we all are made. 

It was a means for him and Christ. 
Shrewder than we, 
each knew for what he sacrificed. 
Carnality 
destroys when not accepted and allayed. 

It is the gift of punishment
that you refuse. 
You say you sin without consent 
and thus excuse 
self-pity and self-hate—and your despair. 

For self is faithless to its end. 
Not wife or child 
will fail as badly, nor has friend 
as soon beguiled. 
It is your way, and you are most aware. 

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Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

 Topics mentioned in this episode:

 -The Ohio Poetry Association
-Milton: Anapests or nah?
-Revisions of elisions 
-Bach deserves some rubato now and then 
-Thomas Hardy: Poet, novelist, romantic, modernist, man of mystery. 
-Shout out to those weird inbetweeners Robinson and Frost 
-What "hap" happens to mean 
-The Dante Rossetti of sonnets 
-Lear, Job, and other sad, god-smacked men 
-What exactly is in this ecstasy? 
-The awkward moment when you realize that both the horrific theological scenarios you talk about accurately describe the Christian god. 
-Cool it with the spondees! 
-A bad god is better than no god 
-Where mete and meter meet. 
-Cretics and Amphibrachs? Somebody stop me! 
-Hardy has some assumptions to answer for 
-The real difference between believers and atheists 
-The fractal dance of chaos and order in the universe 
-The universe desires order via us. 
-Two kinds of "dice" are twice as nice 
-Two kinds of "doom" threaten and loom 
-Scansion to bacchic excess 
-Bill Coyle! 
-As usual, the Greeks did it first 

Text of poem: 

Hap 

If but some vengeful god would call to me 
From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, 
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, 
That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!” 

Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die, 
Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; 
Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I 
Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. 

But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, 
And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? 
—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, 
And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . . 
These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown 
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. 

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

 -A sheepish apology
 -The excellence of Eratosphere
 -Rhythm vs. Meter, and respective variations
 -Metrical stress vs. speech stress
 -The charm and well-adjustedness of Janet Lewis
 -Organized religion vs. natural spirituality
 -Biblical ambience = anaphora and parallelism
 -Amphibrachs!
 -Versecraft feat. Migos and Lizzo
 -Spondees and Pyrrhics!
 -And Dactyls! Collect 'em all.
 -The symbology of the daisy, no Gatsby required.
 -The Legend of the Headless Iamb
 -Hemistichs!
 -Bodily decay is comforting, guys. No no hear me out... 
-Accurate diction, or noble fiction?
 -Automatic, supersonic, Miltonic anapests...
 -God as The Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth
 -We are built for this world, not the next.
 -I agree, says Carl Dennis
 -The Earth is our bed, and we must lie in it.

Text of poem:

Country Burial 
After the words of the magnificence and doom, 
after the vision of the splendor and the fear, 
they go out slowly into the flowery meadow, 
carrying the casket and lay it on the earth 
by the grave’s edge. The daisies bend and straighten 
under the trailing skirts, and serious faces 
look with faint relief, and briefly smile. 
Into this earth the flesh and wood shall melt 
and under these familiar common flowers 
flow through the earth they both have understood 
by sight and touch and daily sustenance. 
And this is comforting: 
For heaven is a blinding radiance where 
leaves are no longer green, nor water wet, 
milk white, soot black, nor winter weather cold, 
and the eyeless vision of the Almighty Face 
brings numbness to the untranslatable heart. 

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Note: I apologize for the shuffling of papers in the audio. Clearly I need a stapler. 

Mea culpa: "In a dark time" is a pyrrhic-spondee motion, not an anapest-trochee one. 

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-The multifarious talent of Wallace Stevens
-Stevens' theory of a "Supreme Fiction"
-The incoherence of this theory
-From subjectivism to objectivism
-Stevens's poem, "The Snow Man"
-Clutch your pearls, this is free verse! 
-Accentual vs. Accentual-Syllabic meter 
-How to write with the "ghost of meter." 
-Anglo-Saxon verse is no slouch 
-It's cold outside = nihilism? 
-The fallacy most pathetic 
-Maybe things DO exist independent of my mind. Huh. 
-Less fantasizing, more listening. 
-A part apart from parts cannot be whole. Take that, mysticism. 
-Anaphora, the catnip of free verse poets and Roman rhetoricians alike. 
-It's God! It's ghosts! It's people! It's... just leaves. 
-Destruction of the self vs. destruction of self-centeredness 
-The particulars of this particular particular, and the course, of course. 

Text of the poem: 

The Course of a Particular
 
Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind, 
Yet the nothingness of winter becomes a little less. 
It is still full of icy shades and shapen snow. 

The leaves cry . . . One holds off and merely hears the cry. 
It is a busy cry, concerning someone else. 
And though one says that one is part of everything, 

There is a conflict, there is a resistance involved; 
And being part is an exertion that declines: 
One feels the life of that which gives life as it is. 

The leaves cry. It is not a cry of divine attention, 
Nor the smoke-drift of puffed-out heroes, nor human cry. 
It is the cry of leaves that do not transcend themselves, 

In the absence of fantasia, without meaning more 
Than they are in the final finding of the ear, 
in the thing Itself, until, at last, the cry concerns no one at all. 

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Art by David Anthony Klug 

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Subjects touched on in this episode include:

 -Mid-century poet syndrome
 -Rhythmic vs. metrical variation
 -The poem as caesura salad
 -The Mind-Body problem, or, putting Descartes before the horse
 -Chaos and Cosmos
 -Is Hell artificial or organic?
 -Guilty sin vs. sinful guilt
 -More distinctions re: Romanticism
 -Insatiable desire and spiritual hollowness
 -A great Shakespeare quote from a just-ok Shakespeare play
 -Civilization as the macro-ubermensch
 -A short botanical digression
 -Finding existential hope in the way fruit works

 Text of the poem: 

Organic Bloom

The brain constructs its system to enclose
The steady paradox of thought and sense;
Momentously its tissued meaning grows
To solve and integrate experience.
But life escapes closed reason. We explain
Our chaos into cosmos, cell by cell, 
Only to learn of some insidious pain
Beyond the limits of our charted hell,
A guilt not mentioned in our prayers, a sin
Conceived against the self. So, vast and vaster
The plasmic circles of gray discipline
Spread outward to include each new disaster. 
Enormous floats the brain's organic bloom
Till, bursting like a fruit, it scatters doom. 

Thank you so much for listening. Please rate, review, subscribe, or recommend to a friend! 

Art by David Anthony Klug 

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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)