Cracked Spines
Crack open a good book with two wise-cracking besties. Sarah and Cyrus are two queer English majors who use their degrees to commit crimes against literature.
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Cracked Spines
Mary Oliver and Owen Wilson: Gay Poetry For Dummies
That's right, we're back on poetry again! We finished the Odyssey and, hungry for more punishment, dove into Mary Oliver's work. Amelia humorously mistakes two vastly different modern poets; Sarah humorously botches an 20th century poet's name (wow). We discuss religion, medicine, nature, DOGS, cats, prose, and more religion.
Media Discussed
Mary Oliver: Dog Songs, Evidence, "The Summer Day," "Wild Geese"
Billy Collins: "Sonnet," "Introduction to Poetry"
John Milton: "On His Blindness"
E. E. Cumings: "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
Claudia Emerson: "Frame, An Epistle"