Topics discussed in this episode include:

-"A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts By An Imagiste" by Ezra Pound

-A ruinous misunderstanding of meter and music

-"Intellectual-emotional complex" and unified sensibility

-"The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" by Ernest Fenollosa

-The ideogrammatic method

-Kiru, Wabi-Sabi, and Mono no Aware (see this fascinating wiki-page on Japanese aesthetics)

-"In A Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound

-"Fan-Piece For Her Imperial Lord" by Ezra Pound

-The Objective Correlative

-"Oread" by H.D.

-"The Pool" by H.D.

-"Des Imagistes" anthology

-Vorticism vs. "Amy-gism"

-"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams

-"This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams

-"Arrival" by William Carlos Williams

-Expressionist painter Egon Schiele

-"The Widow's Lament in Springtime" by William Carlos Williams

-Objectivism, Projectivism, Deep Imagism

-"The Diver" by Peter Vertacnik, and his book, "The Nature of Things Fragile"

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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 (/ /)

Mea culpa: Yes, I know "Sailing to Byzantium" was written like 20 years after "Conversion." By the time I realized my anachronism, it was too late. Something something Borges retroactive influence... 


Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Mary Renault's "The King Must Die." 

-Decadence begets Primitivism

-Gauguin, Picasso, Stravinsky

-Gustave Kahn and vers libre

-T.E. Hulme's essay, Lecture On Modern Poetry

-T.E. Hulme's essay, Romanticism and Classicism

-Symbolism vs. Imagism

-The conservative flavor of 20th century Classicism 

-Science, Politics, and Gnosticism by Eric Voegelin

-Gettin' zesty

-Autumn by T.E. Hulme

-Conversion by T.E. Hulme

-The saga continues...

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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:

-What is Modernism?

-Various dichotomies

-The French origins of Modernism

-Charles Baudelaire and the Decadent movement

-Stephane Mallarme and Symbolism/Impressionism

-Eliot, Laforgue, Corbiere, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

-Hugo vs. Baudelaire

-Edgar Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" and "On the Poetic Principle"

-Theophile Gautier's "Emaux et Camees" and Aestheticism

-"L'Art" by Theophile Gautier

-Parnassianism, pseudo-classicism, and convergent evolution

-Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and "Critique of Judgement"

-Noumenal vs. Phenomenal

-Buddhism and the Four Noble Truths

-Arthur Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation"

-Interested and Disinterested Pleasure 

-"Le Vent Froid de la Nuit" by Leconte de Lisle

-"The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy

-"The Eagle" and "The Kraken" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

-"La Mort de L'Aigle" by Jose Maria de Heredia

-Dinggedicht and Rilke's "Neue Gedichte"

-"Schlangen-Beschworung" by Rainer Maria Rilke

-"On Naive and Sentimental Poetry" by Friedrich Schiller

-The second coming of Parnassianism...

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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:

-Order George David Clark's new book, Newly Not Eternal here!

-Order John Wall Barger's new book, The Elephant of Silence here! 

-On the necessity of verse translation, feat. Bob and Paul 

-Metaphrase and Paraphrase

-The Blumov Method of translation

-Jacques Barzun's An Essay On French Verse

-Romanticism in Realism's clothing

-The tyranny of Hugo

-Parnassianism and other ideologies of contraction

-Buy John Anson's lovely translation of Les Trophees here! 

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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 (/ /)

Text of poem here.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Midlife by Matthew Buckley Smith

-The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse by Christopher Childers

-Khosrow and Shirin by Dick Davis

-In Ghostlight by Ryan Wilson

-A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye by Penelope Pelizzon

-The Nature of Things Fragile by Peter Vertacnik

-My poem Tlaloc on E-Verse Radio

-SLEERICKETS and Versecraft do tragedy, Part I and Part II

-Thank you for your sharp ears, Dan Brown! 

-The Metaphysical vogue

-Starting with the man in the mirror

-Letting the sunshine in

-The (grindcore noises) DUMPSTER OF DEATH

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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 (/ /)

Mea culpa re line 8: I confusedly combined both possible readings-- this is either acephalous hexameter or first foot anapest iambic pentameter.  

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Write to me about classes! 

-The Error by Don Paterson

-Idealism, Nominalism, Transcendental critique

-Plato, Plotinus, Ockham, Kant

-Paterson's band, Lammas

-His many books

-Michael Donaghy

-Blank Verse by Robert B. Shaw, and the 3 Types

-Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil"

-Pseudo-Dionysius and the Via Negativa

-Plotinus's plenum meets Nagarjuna's vacuum (sunyata)

-God as Eclipse (and my episode/poem on this idea)

-Auto-martyrdom on Yggdrasil

-Beholding the Nothing That Is

Text of poem:

Phantom V

We come from nothing and return to it. 

It lends us out to time, and when we lie

in silent contemplation of the void

they say we feel it contemplating us. 

This is wrong, but who could bear the truth.

We are ourselves the void in contemplation. 

We are its only nerve and hand and eye. 

There is something vast and distant and enthroned

with which you are one and continuous,

staring through your mind, staring and staring

like a black sun, constant, silent, radiant

with neither love nor hate nor apathy

as we have no human name for its regard. 

Your thought is the bright shadows that it makes 

as it plays across the objects of the earth

or such icons of them as your mind has forged.

The book in sunlight or the tree in rain

bursts at its touch into a blaze of signs. 

But when the mind rests and the dark light stills,

the tree will rise untethered to its station

between earth and heaven, the open book

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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 (/ /)

Mea culpa: Several times I refer to "Sunlight" as "Sunshine." Blame it on the LSD (which was called "Orange Sunshine"). 

Text of poem here

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Let me know what you think I should teach!

-On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity by John Milton

-The Gas Poker by Thom Gunn

-The Movement

-Syllabics as gateway drug

-Lucy In the Sky With Demanding Forms

-Thom Gunn, Renaissance man

-Golding's Metamorphoses

-Philosophical religions

-A cursory and woefully incomplete history of Platonism

-Adonais by that son-of-a-Bysshe Percy Shelley

-An Essay On Man by Alexander Pope

-Plato's Symposium (see the famous Diotima section)

-Christmas Day 2023 was the day I learned the sun was green

-Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens 

-A song of experience in search of deeper innocence

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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 (/ /)

Text of poem here.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The universecraft 

-Shout out to the Aussies!

-Tim Tams SLAM, y'all

-Alice Allan, Poetry Says, and our episode on Gwen Harwood

-The Australian Augustans: Hope, McAuley, Stewart

-Paul Valery's "Le Cimitiere Marin"

-Tertius paeon reviewed

-The ocean motif, and my episodes on JMW's Through the Water and Yezzi's Mother Carey's Hen

-Quickness, Fastness

-Why graveyards are killer 

-In Soviet Russia, bones wear YOU.

-The jack-o-lanterns of our labor

-Love as the light upon the waters of death

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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 (/ /)

Songs discussed in The Rainbow Mythos include:

Tarot Woman (lyrics here)

Rainbow Eyes (lyrics here)

Catch The Rainbow (lyrics here)

The Man On The Silver Mountain (lyrics here)

The Temple Of The King (lyrics here)

Stargazer (lyrics here)

A Light In The Black (lyrics here)

Topics discussed include:

Brian Brodeur's new book, Some Problems With Autobiography

Katie Hartsock's new book, Wolf Trees

My episode on Brian Brodeur

Poetry lyric vs. Song lyric

Poetic vs. Mythopoetic

C.S. Lewis on George Macdonald

Juke-box musicals

A brief history of the mighty Dio

An Angel Is Missing by Ronnie and the Redcaps

Elf, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Ritchie Blackmore

Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell

The rainbow motif

The myth of Icarus

The tragedy of civilization

The wheel keeps turning

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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 (/ /)

Text of poem here

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Romanticism, Modernism, and The Lyric

-Defining ourselves against the vices of our age

-Historical problems with Lyric

-Modernism as pharmakon

-T.S. Eliot's essay, Andrew Marvell

-T.S. Eliot's essay, The Metaphysical Poets

-Marvell's Horatian Ode

-Marvell's Country House poem, Upon Appleton House

-Marvell's "Collige, Virgo, Rosas" or "Carpe Diem" poem, To His Coy Mistress

-Paradise Lost 

-An anatomy of Marvell's style

-La Corona by John Donne (my episode on Donne here)

-A Wreath by George Herbert (my episode on Herbert here)

-Stichic vs. Strophic

-On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost by Marvell

-The selfish heart of the artist

-The Faerie Queene 

-Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

-The terrifying prodigality of God

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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 (/ /)