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One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?
Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ("Psychoanalysis: An Elegy")
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Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ("Psychoanalysis: An Elegy")
How is a poem like a session of psychoanalysis? The scholar Daniel Katz [https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/katzdrd/] joins the podcast to talk about a fascinating poem that poses that question, Jack Spicer's "Psychoanalysis: An Elegy [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51396/psychoanalysis-an-elegy]."
Daniel Katz is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and is the author of several books and articles on modernism, modern and contemporary poetry, and psychoanalysis. His work on Spicer includes a monograph, The Poetry of Jack Spicer [https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-poetry-of-jack-spicer.html] (Edinburgh UP, 2013), and Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer [https://www.weslpress.org/9780819578150/be-brave-to-things/] (Wesleyan UP, 2021), for which he served as editor. He is currently finishing a book called "The Big Lie of the Personal: Poetry, Politics, and the Lyric Subject."
In our conversation, we refer to a few other Spicer volumes: My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer [https://www.weslpress.org/9780819570901/my-vocabulary-did-this-to-me/], Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer [https://www.weslpress.org/9780819501905/even-strange-ghosts-can-be-shared/], The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer [https://www.weslpress.org/9780819502124/the-house-that-jack-built-new-edition/], and finally Spicer's book After Lorca [https://www.nyrb.com/products/after-lorca].
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One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?
