The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & Beyond
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Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 5: The Reaper’s Mixtape”:
* My Apocalypse Dance prequel chapbook, Before Apokalypto
* The Flummoxed Podcast “Ep. 4: A Book’s Long Journey to Publication”
* Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech!
* Zina Gomez-Liss, The Beauty of Things, and The Beauty of Things Podcast
* New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry
* Zina Gomez-Liss’s “Mixtapes Will Save Poetry” and “Love, Poetry, and Mixtapes”
* Matthew Buckley Smith and Sleerickets
* David Gosselin, Age of Muses, and a “New Summer Mixtape Series”
* Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching
* My “A Christian Reflection on the Tao Te Ching’s First Poem”
* Maryann Corbett’s “Capital Improvements: The Initial-Caps Wars” at Literary Matters
* Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand”
* Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Book 4
* The Struma, or Strymon, River
* Leonard Cohen’s “The Future”
* General Yue Fei and my Yue Fei translations project, as described at New Verse Review
* The Confucian Classic Book of Rites
* C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man
* Sylvia Plath’s “Fever 103°”
* Metallica’s “Through the Never” (written by James Alan Hetfield)
* My “The Reaper’s Revelation”
* Dana Gioia’s “Poetry as Enchantment” at Wide-Eyed with Wiseblood Books
* Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“The Reaper’s Mixtape” “track list”:
* “F r a g m e n t s”
* “Salt”
* “Damned Winter”
* “The Old Gods”
* “Between the Hillocks”
* “Hurricane Sally Aftermath”
* “Fever of the Tao”
* “Welcome to Eternity”
* “Autumn Wind/Winter Rush”
* “Red Christmas Kettles”
* “December Sunset”
* “The King and Queen of Neon”
* “The Bluegrass Players”
Other notes:
* When I say that in “F r a g m e n t s” each 2nd half of each line in each quatrain contains 2 beats, then 3 beats, then 2, then 3—as the inverse of the ballad poetic form’s arrangement of metrical feet (4, 3, 4, 3)—I neglected to say that in each instance I consider the 1st half of each line an additional 1 beat (despite often technically having more than that), which of course is necessary to fulfill my “inverse of the ballad.”
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The Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio.
