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?
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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?
What a searching, stimulating conversation this was. Elisa Gabbert [http://www.elisagabbert.com/] joins the podcast to talk about a poem she and I have both long loved, Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus]."
Elisa is a poet, critic, and essayist—and the author of several books. Her recent titles include Normal Distance [https://softskull.com/books/normal-distance/] (Soft Skull, 2022), The Unreality of Memory [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538347] (FSG Originals, 2020), and The Word Pretty [https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/the-word-pretty] (Black Ocean, 2018). She has a new book of essays coming out next year: Any Person Is the Only Self [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374605896](FSG, 2024). Elisa writes the "On Poetry" column for The New York Times, and she regularly reviews new books of poetry there and elsewhere. You can follow Elisa on Twitter [https://twitter.com/egabbert].
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Close Readings
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?
