How do we love poetry? Let us count the ways. This week, we’re joined by Anthony Garrett to kick off National Poetry Month with a wonderful conversation about our favorite poems and poets, how and when we read poetry, and a discussion about how to approach this sometimes intimidating part of the literary landscape. Does poetry play a part in your reading life?
We also announce the winners of our latest giveaway, so please join us!
Shownotes
Books
Averno, by Louise Glück
The Obscene Bird of Night, by José Donoso, translated by Megan McDowell, Hardie St. Martin, and Leonard Mades
A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, by Kapka Kassabova
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace, by Kapka Kassabova
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs
The Fisherman, by John Langan
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer
Rock Crystal, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore
The End, by Attila Bartis, translated by Judith Sollosy
Divorcing, by Susan Taubes
Notes of a Crocodile, by Qin Miaogin, translated by Bonnie Huie
“The Waste Land,” by T.S. Eliot
“Today,” by Billy Collins
Poems 1962 - 2012, by Louise Glück
Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn
Picnic, Lightning, by Billy Collins
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965 - 2016, by Frank Bidart
Gabriel: A Poem, by Edward Hirsch
The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, by Edward Hirsch
“When Death Comes,” by Mary Oliver
“As One Listens to the Rain,” by Octavio Paz
“The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.S. Eliot
Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison, by Ted Kooser
Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry, by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison
“Bullet Points,” by Jericho Brown
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark
“Tulips,” by Sylvia Plath
Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz
When My Brother Was an Aztec, by Natalie Diaz
The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück
Winter Recipes from the Collective, by Louise Glück
Links
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Episode 1: Bucket List Books, in which Trevor kicks War and Peace off his bucket list
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Episode 77: Poetry