To My Artist Friends, Part II (feat. SLEERICKETS)

Read our four poems here. (Note: The file may take a while to load!)

Topics mentioned in this episode include:

-My David Yezzi episode
-Ryan Wilson
-Three kinds of formal poets: puzzle solvers, natural rhymers, aesthetes
-Paul Celan
-Literary Matters
-John Berryman's "Dream Songs"
-Wait Until Dark
-Object Permanence (here's Matthew's poem on the subject!)
-"The Uncanny" by Sigmund Freud
-The gnosticism of disability
-The spiritual mimesis of architecture
-Abbot Suger
-The aesthetics of tourism
-New York's Art Deco skyscrapers
-Frank Lloyd Wright
-The "Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body" topos (see Marvell's example)
-Rainer Maria Rilke
-The recently deceased Louise Gluck
-The anti-Romantic thesis behind the Romantic anti-hero
-"Paradise Lost" by John Milton
-"Brand" and "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen
-My turophilia and background as a fromagier
-Making mozzarella with Dave in Colorado
-An enthusiastic endorsement of raw milk
-Illegal cheese!
-The world of fragrances and parfumerie
-The amber accord
-Not that Richard Burton, this one
-An invitation to psychedelic druidcraft