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Episode Synopsis
For the RtB Books in Dark Times series back in 2021, John spoke with Elizabeth Bradfied, editor of Broadsided Press, poet, professor of creative writing at Brandeis, naturalist, photographer.
Her books include Interpretive Work, Approaching Ice, Once Removed, and Toward Antarctica. She lives on Cape Cod, travels north every summer to guide people into Arctic climes, birdwatches.
Liz is in and of and for our whole natural world. Did poetry sustaining her through the darkest hours of the pandemic? What about other sources of inspiration?
Mentioned in the episode:
Eavand Boland, “Quarantine” (from Against Love Poetry; read her NY Times obituary here)
Maeve Binchy, “Circle of Friends“
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
Louise Gluck Averno and Wild Iris
Brian Teare, Doomstead Days
Derek Walcott, “Omeros“
W. S. Merwin, “The Folding Cliffs”
Natasha Trethewey, “Belloqc’s Ophelia“
Yeats, “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Nest, Eggs and Nestlings of North American Birds (Princeton Field Guides)
Trixie Belden
Shel Silverstein
Lois Lowry, “The Giver“
Liz equates poetry and Tetris
Leanne Simpson, “This Accident of Being Lost“
Elizabeth Bradfield, “We all want to see a mammal“
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Her books include Interpretive Work, Approaching Ice, Once Removed, and Toward Antarctica. She lives on Cape Cod, travels north every summer to guide people into Arctic climes, birdwatches.
Liz is in and of and for our whole natural world. Did poetry sustaining her through the darkest hours of the pandemic? What about other sources of inspiration?
Mentioned in the episode:
Eavand Boland, “Quarantine” (from Against Love Poetry; read her NY Times obituary here)
Maeve Binchy, “Circle of Friends“
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
Louise Gluck Averno and Wild Iris
Brian Teare, Doomstead Days
Derek Walcott, “Omeros“
W. S. Merwin, “The Folding Cliffs”
Natasha Trethewey, “Belloqc’s Ophelia“
Yeats, “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Nest, Eggs and Nestlings of North American Birds (Princeton Field Guides)
Trixie Belden
Shel Silverstein
Lois Lowry, “The Giver“
Liz equates poetry and Tetris
Leanne Simpson, “This Accident of Being Lost“
Elizabeth Bradfield, “We all want to see a mammal“
Listen and Read Here:
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