Listen "Language Learning through Poetry: Roya Huang"
Episode Synopsis
Molecular and cellular biologist Roya Huang joins us to talk about studying another language by discussing its poetry, reading in different disciplines, the benefits of small-group study, and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: A leaf from a Farsi manuscript of poetry (cropped). Public domain image courtesy San Diego Museum of Art and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black Anna Akhmatova Refaat Alareer Nick Bantock Griffin and Sabine Italo Calvino Why Read the Classics? Aimé Césaire Suzanne Césaire Jacques Derrida The Gift of Death Jacques Derrida Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao William Empson Seven Types of Ambiguity Forough Farroukhzad "The Wind-up Doll" (and others!) Homer The Iliad Homer The Odyssey James Joyce Ulysses Abbas Kiarostami Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (transl. Reg Keeland) Else Lasker-Schüler Jasbir K. Puar The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin (transl. Vladimir Nabokov) George Saunders Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain Peter-Klaus Schuster Franz Marc: Postcards to Prince Jussuf Wallace Stevens Helen Vendler Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire Helen Vendler On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems
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