• Emotion Put Into Measure: Poetry Matters

  • By: Alex&Richard
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Emotion Put Into Measure: Poetry Matters

By: Alex&Richard
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  • Summary

  • When our emotions lack words (or the reverse), maybe those of the greatest poets can aid us. This is our challenge. How can the poets help us today?
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Episodes
  • Friedrich Hölderlin, with guest philosopher Christopher Satoor

    Friedrich Hölderlin, with guest philosopher Christopher Satoor
    Apr 29 2021

    Friedrich Hölderlin's poetry marks a mesmerizingly profound engagement with the philosophers of his time. Hölderlin performs his response to philosophers like Kant, Schelling, Fichte, and Hegel in his poetry. With the help of philosopher Christopher Satoor, we begin to enlighten ourselves on Hölderlin and his ability to help us contend with German Idealism, Romanticism, the Enlightenment and our own era.
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Poetry as Blood and Soul: guest poet, Robert A. Boates

    Poetry as Blood and Soul: guest poet, Robert A. Boates
    Apr 18 2021

    Robert A. Boates is living his second life and poetry is everything for him. Today we discuss Man Without Memory, a manuscript from his first life, along with some of his more recent poems from Cataract of the Mind. We are fortunate to hear Robert's thoughts on memory, brain damage, survival, poetry and rhythm.
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    58 mins
  • Rūmī: Intro to his Life and Mindset

    Rūmī: Intro to his Life and Mindset
    Mar 28 2021

    The famous Thirteenth Century Islamic poet and Sufi mystic, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, had some profound ideas and an incomparable range of subject matter, from eroticism and vulgar sexuality to love and the divine. Today we begin a journey through Rūmī's life and poetry.
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    42 mins
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