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Human Voices Wake Us: A Podcast of History, Poetry, Creativity & Myth

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Tag: Vincent Van Gogh

There is Only the Trying: Some Thoughts on Fame & Failure

A reader favorite from 2016, that I like to repost now & then: 1. When Derek Jeter retired from baseball in the fall of 2014, those who followed his last season heard the unsurprising story that he’d wanted to be shortstop for the New York Yankees since he was a little boy. And as I…

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Images: The Act of Writing

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Van Gogh's Early Years - Human Voices Wake Us

Tonight, we enter into the early years of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), from his birth in the village of Zundert in the Netherlands, to his time in the Borinage mining region of Belgium. It was there, at the age of twenty-seven—and after years of personal and professional failures—that he hit bottom … and suddenly realized he was an artist. In the first half of the episode, I read from Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith’s biography, Van Gogh: The Life. The second half is devoted to a handful of letters Van Gogh wrote to his brother in 1879 and 1880, where he admits the humiliation of his failures, and then revels in his newfound passion for drawing and painting. The letters can be found online here. You can join Human Voices Wake Us on Patreon, or sign up for our newsletter, by clicking here. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support
  1. Van Gogh's Early Years 53:29
  2. Give Me Another Tarantula 51:22
  3. Robert Lowell: 10 Essential Poems 53:54
  4. What Do Writers & Actors Have in Common? 49:06
  5. True Horror 57:43
  6. The Great Myths #21: The Story of Creation in the Norse Eddas 01:22:28
  7. Old Friends 01:07:43
  8. Ted Hughes: 12 Essential Poems 01:23:47
  9. Robinson Jeffers: 10 Essential Poems 53:12
  10. The Great Myths #20: Introducing Norse Myth & Reading the Voluspa 01:21:14
 

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