Samyak Shertok: Conjure What Was Never There Before
About this episode
Samyak Shertok curates a selection of poems that explore the interplay of image, narrative, and memory.
Samyak Shertok curates poems that shift between image and narrative, between sound, silence, and simile as they create something wholly new. He introduces Joy Harjo testing the line between being an eyewitness and witnessing to (“Deer Dancer”), Li-Young Lee looking for the beloved everywhere (“Echo and Shadow”), and John Murillo braiding a complex tapestry from memory and remembering (“Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds,”). To close, Shertok i...
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Host: Samyak Shertok
Topics covered
- poetry
- narrative
- imagery
- memory
- witnessing
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Deer Dancer, Echo and Shadow, Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds
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