Episode 296 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
On this week’s program, I talk to the poet Denise Duhamel about the role of politics and play in poetry.
BOOKS DISCUSSED
NOTES
Here in Orlando, the City Beautiful, come out and hear some protest poetry on January 19th.
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The music used in this episode was “Tremor” and “As the Dark Wave Swells” by The Bambi Molesters.
Episode 296 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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Nice to hear a feminist poet who can make a joke and get a joke. It’s sad how rare that is. Not only the interview but the poems show she ahs put some thought into what she’s saying, and not just regurgitating tired 70’s shrill copy.
One question is: why did she spell ‘Scald’ with a ‘c’? In the opening poem she’s using ‘skald’ as in ‘poet’ but then the book is titled as if it’s boiling water burning the reader.
I liked the digression into “Sex and the City”. I watched a few episodes back in the previous millennium because everything deserves a chance, but remember it now only because Sarah Jessica Parker was implausible as the lead journalist an that it was the first show to say ‘cunt’ on TV (in an episode about an artist who’d gone all Georgia O’Keefe in his dotage).
I ws thnking through ti how the way people criticise forms is based on how much time it takes to experience them. Painting, song, poem, novel. A painting can be assessed as soon as you see it, a song has to be lisened to for three to seven minutes, a poem read in a bit longer time or listned to in a bit longer time (unless it’s a limerick) and a novel takes hours to read. Not completely understand, I grant you, but just assimilate. So you can disparage the poem after a shorter wait for it to finish. Or wait a shorter time to express the ‘hamster orgasm’. (Nice term, that.)
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