Text of poem HERE
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Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Matthew comes for my prosodic neck (mea culpa: his reading was first foot trochee, feminine ending).
-Rabbi Neil Blumofe brings up Pirkei Avot
-Susan Spear and Catherine Chandler
-Yezzi's new Anthony Hecht biography, Late Romance
-Matthew interviews David here
-Yezzi's new Selected, More Things In Heaven
-Mother Carey, Mater Cara, Stella Maris
-Metrical schemes and ambiguous scansions
-Salty mirages
-The Tao of the petrel
-Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, "Following Nature"
-The Post-Symbolist Method
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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)