The Ocean, the Bird and the Scholar

Описание: Join Eleanor as she teeters on her literary seesaw. Accompanying her in the playground are Helen Vendler, Wallace Stevens, Patrick Bringley, Robyn Schiff, Jana Prikryl, Edmund de Waal, Moïse Camondo and Paul Celan.

0:00 - 2:30 Recap and intro
2:30 - 16:00 Two podcast episodes from the Poetry Foundation starring Helen Vendler, Marjorie Perloff, Wallace Stevens and Jasper Johns
16:00 - 20:50 Patrick Bringley's "All the Beauty in the World"
20:50 - 28:30 Bringley's book as compared to Robyn Schiff's "Information Desk"
28:30 - end Jana Prikryl's poem "Pillow," Edmund de Waal's "Letters to Camondo," Paul Celan's poem "Etched Away"

Links to sources I mention:

Watch how a rosehead nail is made:
   • Watch how a rose head nail is made. 🔨  

A.E. Stallings's poem about the making of a rosehead nail:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poet...

‪@poetrycrone‬ (Please see her reading of the above poem, and more, in the comment section of my video from last week)

Podcast episode about the wonderful Helen Vendler & Marjorie Perloff:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/audi...

Vendler's fascinating lecture comparing Wallace Stevens to Jasper Johns:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/audi...

Most of the Stevens poems mentioned by Vendler in the above lecture:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poet...

https://mondaypoems.blogspot.com/2015...

https://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/8...

https://thepoemoftheweek.blogspot.com...

Illustrator Maya McMahon:
https://maya-mcmahon-portfolio.weebly...

Sean Singer's substack:
https://seansinger.substack.com

Podcast interview in which Edmund de Waal discusses the Celan poem:
https://timesensitive.fm/episode/edmu...

‪@bibliosophie‬ (Sophie also discusses Paul Celan in her latest video)