In this fast-paced, spontaneous, testy analysis, we examine the poem "Without" by Jo Harjo, published in the New Yorker magazine. This session includes Harjo reading the poem, courtesy of the magazine, the link to which (and its text) is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/without

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57. Without - Joy Harjo

In this fast-paced, spontaneous, testy analysis, we examine the poem "Half-Life in Exile" by Hala Alyan, published in the September 20, 2021 edition of the New Yorker magazine. This session includes the background tuning of Steve Cohn and Carl Baugher's "Heliotropism" and Alyan reading the poem, courtesy of the magazine, the link to which (and its text) is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/half-life-in-exile

half-Life in Exile - Hala Alyan

56. Half-Life in Exile - Hala Alyan

Here's the second part of our far ranging and fetching session on the term "swerve," and here attempts to speak of and into its application to Lucretius and his brand of Epicurean thought. This was recorded in October of 2019 - a throwback to the dawn of Baffling Combustions, and no. 11 on our chronology. To connect with the first part, Swerve I, here's link (or use whatever accustomed podcast platform): https://soundcloud.com/bafflingcombustions/swerve-1?si=564c31d32ec24549ba4af32f598a162c

11. Swerve II

In this fast-paced, spontaneous, testy analysis, we examine the poem "Tin" by Jane Hirshfield, published in the September 13, 2021 edition of the New Yorker magazine. This session includes Hirshfield reading the poem, courtesy of the magazine, the link to which (and its text) is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/tin

Tin - Hirshfield

55. Tin - Hirshfield

55. Tin - Jane Hirshfield

Here is another installment (no. 7) in our on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverbs: "The fox condemns the trap, not himself"; and "Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things we're still working out.

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54. Proverbs VII

Ending in Howlin' Wolf's "If You Hear Me Howlin'" not-to-be-missed soundtrack from the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, here is another installment in our on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverb, "The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things we're still working out.

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53. Proverbs VI

Here is another installment in on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverbs "The nakedness of woman is the work of God"; and "Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things we're still working out.

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Here again, installment in on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverbs "The nakedness of woman is the work of God"; and "Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things we're still working out.

52. Proverbs V

In this fourth part of an ongoing session, we look at the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, arguable his first attempt - written between the years 1798 and 1803, coincident with the start and subsequent bending of the French Revolution - to articulate a personal philosophy. Here we spend all to puzzle out the proverb, among others, "Prisons are built of stones of Law, Brothels by bricks of Religion." In these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things were still working out.

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Baffling combustions," Ted (Berrigan) said, "are everywhere," and we aim to find and dance, however faultingly, in their light. Join three men in a pod, hosts Andrew McCarron, Sam Truitt and Sparrow, as they plumb the mundane and cosmic strange, mysterious and beguiling events of the human and natural. Please note that while we sometimes wrench and wrest, it's always inalienably with ourselves: or in these experiments, no idea is ever harmed, only nested.

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