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Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen ("Dim Lady")

Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen ("Dim Lady")

FromClose Readings


Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen ("Dim Lady")

FromClose Readings

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Length:
93 minutes
Released:
Jan 8, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What kind of love do we find in comparison? Keegan Cook FInberg joins the podcast to discuss Harryette Mullen's poem "Dim Lady," which is simultaneously a love poem and a (perhaps?) loving tribute to Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 (itself a love poem and parody). Keegan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is finishing a book called Poetry in General: Interdisciplinarity and U.S. Public Forms. You can find a sample of the work she's doing in that book in her article in Textual Practice on Frank O'Hara and the Seagram Building. And you can find samples of her new project, on poetry and surveillance, in essays she has written on Claudia Rankine and Solmaz Sharif. Follow Keegan on Twitter.As ever, please follow, rate, and review the podcast if you're enjoying it. And share an episode with a friend! You can also subscribe to my Substack, where you'll get occasional updates on the pod and my other work.
Released:
Jan 8, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (49)

One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?