• "The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clark

  • 2024/11/06
  • 再生時間: 28 分
  • ポッドキャスト

"The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clark

  • サマリー

  • Soundtrack to this episode

    Topics discussed in this episode include:

    -Listen to my talk on Melville here

    -Listen to my poetry reading with Dan Brown here

    -Outsider poetry

    -The Education of Henry Adams

    -Metrical hijinks

    -The inherent negations of blindness

    -"Durer: Insbrook, 1495" by Ern Malley

    -"Lycidas" by John Milton

    -Forging a new sensibility in identitarian poetry

    Text of poem:

    The Education of the Blind Poet; Or, Ars Poetica Ending with a Line from Milton

    When I was 9 they taught me how to look

    at someone as they spoke though I could see

    nothing: it's polite they said & I was, look

    I'm staring at the nothing of you, see?

    My Nothing reader, pelted in your silence:

    silent in History I drilled my lack

    of stare into the history-shaped silence

    of the confidential blackboard's black.

    The teacher, standing slightly to its right

    scrawled her timelines onto its cold chalk down.

    See, teacher, have I not been studious: "Write

    what's on the board." & I noted nothing down.

    My No-Thing reader, ear pressed to the board

    of words, how has your face become hers? mute

    light stained her hair as she addressed the board,

    & I presided over absence, mute.

    All blind things learn to cleave to absence:

    stiff-uniformed moles shoulder their chalk-blank dome

    of earth. O Teacher to you I was absence,

    you who'd only bring yourself to speak óf me

    asking always Does hé need help? in a voice

    hushed & mailed by its pity, pitywords

    cringing between your jaws. I knew that voice

    as my inheritance: these blind mouths full of words.

    Support the show

    BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.

    Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.

    You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here!

    TikTok: @versecraft
    Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com

    My favorite poetry podcasts for:
    Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
    Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
    The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

    Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
    Art by David Anthony Klug

    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 (/ /)

    続きを読む 一部表示

あらすじ・解説

Soundtrack to this episode

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Listen to my talk on Melville here

-Listen to my poetry reading with Dan Brown here

-Outsider poetry

-The Education of Henry Adams

-Metrical hijinks

-The inherent negations of blindness

-"Durer: Insbrook, 1495" by Ern Malley

-"Lycidas" by John Milton

-Forging a new sensibility in identitarian poetry

Text of poem:

The Education of the Blind Poet; Or, Ars Poetica Ending with a Line from Milton

When I was 9 they taught me how to look

at someone as they spoke though I could see

nothing: it's polite they said & I was, look

I'm staring at the nothing of you, see?

My Nothing reader, pelted in your silence:

silent in History I drilled my lack

of stare into the history-shaped silence

of the confidential blackboard's black.

The teacher, standing slightly to its right

scrawled her timelines onto its cold chalk down.

See, teacher, have I not been studious: "Write

what's on the board." & I noted nothing down.

My No-Thing reader, ear pressed to the board

of words, how has your face become hers? mute

light stained her hair as she addressed the board,

& I presided over absence, mute.

All blind things learn to cleave to absence:

stiff-uniformed moles shoulder their chalk-blank dome

of earth. O Teacher to you I was absence,

you who'd only bring yourself to speak óf me

asking always Does hé need help? in a voice

hushed & mailed by its pity, pitywords

cringing between your jaws. I knew that voice

as my inheritance: these blind mouths full of words.

Support the show

BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.

Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.

You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here!

TikTok: @versecraft
Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com

My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

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 (/ /)

"The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clarkに寄せられたリスナーの声

カスタマーレビュー:以下のタブを選択することで、他のサイトのレビューをご覧になれます。