An episode from 3/3/24: Tonight, I read from a handful of what I call “visionary” poems. After an introductory section of familiar nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, I go back to the sources of those, which are found in religious scripture and myth:
- W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming”
- T. S. Eliot: sections from The Waste Land and “East Coker”
- Walt Whitman: the first section of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
- William Wordsworth: from the thirteenth book of The Prelude
- William Blake: from his long poem Milton
- The first chapter of Ezekiel
- A speech from Euripides’s Bacchae, tr. William Arrowsmith
- Part of the eleventh book of the Bhagavad-Gita, tr. by Amit Majmudar in his Godsong
- I close the episode with a reading that will not surprise long-time listeners.
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Tim Miller 
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