"Preludes to Memnon 1:4-5" by Conrad Aiken

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My recent class at the Frost Farm Conference

-My trip to Europe

-Come to the ALSCW Conference!

-Part I and Part II of my essay on French poetry in Marginalia Review of Books

-New poems and translations of mine in the latest issue of Literary Matters

-My essays The Iron Lyre and The Monumentalist Manifesto

-The most recent SLEERICKETS

-The Romantic within the Classicist

-Philosophy within poetry

-The mystique of Santayana

-"The Morning Song of Senlin" by Conrad Aiken

-"The Clerk's Journal" and "The House of Dust" by Conrad Aiken

-"Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry

-"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt

-The Colossi of Memnon

-Metrical trickery and incorporating Whitman into iambs.

-Stevensian Idealism and the Supreme Fiction

-Neoplatonism and Ukiyo

-From Solipsism to Pantheism

-From Berkeley to Kant

-The meaning of "God's Image"

-Dialectical Monism, the Dyad, and the Tao

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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 (/ /)