We're talking to literature scholar Niloofar Ghaemi about Hart Crane, the call of poetry, and memory and destruction.
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Episode artwork: Edward John Poynter, Erato, Muse of Poetry (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Anna Akhmatova
Walter Benjamin
Renée L. Bergland
The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects
Pascale Casanova
The World Republic of Letters
Howard Caygill
Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience
Hart Crane
"The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge"
Kirby Dick / Amy Ziering Kofman
Derrida: The Documentary
T. S. Eliot
"The Waste Land"
Farugh Farrokhzad
Aros Fioretos, ed.
Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan
Édouard Glissant
Mahagony
Langdon Hammer
Martin Heidegger
Edmund Husserl
Alan Kaufman, ed.
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
Jack Kerouac
Osip Mandelstam
The Noise of Time: Selected Prose
Leonard Michaels
The Essays of Leonard Michaels
Isaac Newton
B. P. Nichol
The Martyrology
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On the Use and Abuse of History for Life"
OuLiPo
Georges Perec
"Spoken in Jest: On the Continuing Importance of Georges Perec," by Darran Anderson
Mary Ruefle
Tupac Shakur
Patti Smith
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
Tomas Tranströmer
Selected Poems, 1954–1986
Antonio Zadra / Robert Stickgold
When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds
