Listen "Poetry, Imagination, Transcendence: Lisa Dordal"
Episode Synopsis
Poet and teacher Lisa Dordal joins us to talk about memory, the imagination, clearing up misconceptions about poetry, and so much more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Leon Kowalsi, Nostalgia (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commmons. Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—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! Claire-Louise Bennett Pond Joe Brainard I Remember Oliver Burkeman Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Willa Cather Lucy Gayheart Gaius Valerius Catullus Catullus: The Complete Poetry, transl. Frank. O. Copley Leonard Cohen "Anthem" Julio Cortázar Hopscotch Simon Critchley The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology Simon Critchley Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance Emily Dickinson Lisa Dordal Mosaic of the Dark Lisa Dordal Next Time You Come Home Lisa Dordal Water Lessons T. S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Vilém Flusser Gestures Robert Frost Ross Gay David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars Kent Haruf Václav Havel Martin Heidegger Poetry, Language, Thought John Keats Claire Keegan Jack Kerouac On the Road Maxine Kumin "Woodchucks" Alice McDermott Julie Otsuka When the Emperor Was Divine Per Petterson Poets & Writers Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time series Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Rumi "A Great Wagon" W. G. Sebald William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias" Clint Smith Above Ground Clint Smith How the Word Is Passed Dorothee Sölle Elizabeth Strout Thao Thai Banyan Moon Natasha Trethewy William Wordsworth The Writer's Chronicle Antonio Zadra/Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds
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