One of the marks of great poetry is "strangeness": A felt shift in consciousness, a gear that turns in your head upon encountering a mind alien to your own. Another mark of great poetry is allusion. Chains of rich references between poets, either in homage or resistance, going back to the earliest days of the tradition.
Today we explore these concepts while enjoying a bunch of poems from Allen Ginsburg, E.E Cummings, Frank O'Hara, W.B Yeats, and others. We also talk about narcissism, social malcontents, psychedelics, bitterness vs. growth, Nietzsche vs. Dostoevsky, and pooping in the backyard.
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