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Human Voices Wake Us
Human Voices Wake Us
200 episodes
5 days ago
The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.
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The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.
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Anthology: Visionary Poems from Yeats, Whitman, Blake & Myth (from the archive)
Human Voices Wake Us
1 hour 11 minutes 6 seconds
10 months ago
Anthology: Visionary Poems from Yeats, Whitman, Blake & Myth (from the archive)

An episode from 3/3/24: Tonight, I read from a handful of what I call “visionary” poems. After an introductory section of familiar nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, I go back to the sources of those, which are found in religious scripture and myth:

  • W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming”
  • T. S. Eliot: sections from The Waste Land and “East Coker”
  • Walt Whitman: the first section of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
  • William Wordsworth: from the thirteenth book of The Prelude
  • William Blake: from his long poem Milton
  • The first chapter of Ezekiel (from the JPS audio Tanakh)
  • A speech from Euripides’s Bacchae, tr. William Arrowsmith
  • Part of the eleventh book of the Bhagavad-Gita, tr. by Amit Majmudar in his Godsong
  • I close the episode with a reading that will not surprise long-time listeners.

You can support Human Voices Wake Us here, or by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the S4N Pocket Poems series. Email me at  humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.

Human Voices Wake Us
The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.