SE01E08 | l(a | E. E. Cummings
from I Could Think of Verse Hosted by Garfield Dsouza
l(a. Yes that’s the title of the poem. The open bracket does form part of it. And no, it’s not one of the acronyms or initialisms bandied about these days, and I’m talking about the days such as they are in the year 2023. What it is is the first line of a poem: a poem spread across nine lines with its longest line a mere five letters. If that’s all we have and the fact that E. E. Cummings is its creator, the poem lends itself to an interesting exercise of interpretation. Episode 08 dives into that very exercise. Transcript: https://bit.ly/3UiT56l Background Score: Nebular Focus: Dan Henig | Russian River: Dan Hening | The Voyage: Audionatrix The Voyage by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/
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