The Call of the Poem: Niloofar Ghaemi

We're talking to literature scholar Niloofar Ghaemi about Hart Crane, the call of poetry, and memory and destruction. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Edward John Poynter, Erato, Muse of Poetry (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!   Anna Akhmatova Walter Benjamin Renée L. Bergland The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects Pascale Casanova The World Republic of Letters Howard Caygill Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience Hart Crane "The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge" Kirby Dick / Amy Ziering Kofman Derrida: The Documentary T. S. Eliot "The Waste Land" Farugh Farrokhzad Aros Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Édouard Glissant Mahagony Langdon Hammer Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl Alan Kaufman, ed. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry Jack Kerouac Osip Mandelstam The Noise of Time: Selected Prose Leonard Michaels The Essays of Leonard Michaels Isaac Newton B. P. Nichol The Martyrology Friedrich Nietzsche "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life" OuLiPo Georges Perec "Spoken in Jest: On the Continuing Importance of Georges Perec," by Darran Anderson Mary Ruefle Tupac Shakur Patti Smith Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty Tomas Tranströmer Selected Poems, 1954–1986 Antonio Zadra / Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds