Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
James Allen Hall and Aaron Smith talk about their favorite poems and poets, interview amazing writers, laugh a lot, gossip, and get real about life and art.
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
Fum*ble*cunk: Victorian Slang
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Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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What nanty narking our Reginas have with some slang from the Victorian era.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Show Notes:
Marilyn Nelson's poem in The New Yorker that Aaron was thinking of is "Pigeon and Hawk."
Poets we mention include (with a poem by each):
Adrienne Rich
Jean Valentines, "Ghost Elephants"
Larry Levis and Aaron's poem "Elegy" which references Levis's "The Smell of the Sea"