18 episodes

Stop looking at a screen. Let the images be made in your mind. Expect: despair, glee, intimations of mortality, and extra-ordinary words, sometimes read directly to you, sometimes set in radio-play esque frames assembled from mysterious cables, drift-wood, glitter, a golden microphone, and cheap glue.

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    • Arts

Stop looking at a screen. Let the images be made in your mind. Expect: despair, glee, intimations of mortality, and extra-ordinary words, sometimes read directly to you, sometimes set in radio-play esque frames assembled from mysterious cables, drift-wood, glitter, a golden microphone, and cheap glue.

    Episode 17: Hotel Eden

    Episode 17: Hotel Eden

    Let’s check into the Hotel Eden to relax in the eternal now. “Rowing in Eden” by Erik Anderson Reece is from a collection of work inspired by Joseph Cornell’s bird boxes.

    • 6 min
    Episode 16: Rilke's Duino Elegies #9

    Episode 16: Rilke's Duino Elegies #9

    Why have to be human? Oh not because happiness exists. Not out of curiosity, not as practice for the heart. But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.
    (tr: Stephen Mitchell)

    • 14 min
    Episode 15: "Sea Songs"

    Episode 15: "Sea Songs"

    It is best not to think of words while living. To not think "It is like". To be reminded by.

    • 8 min
    Episode 14: "Transcendental Etude"

    Episode 14: "Transcendental Etude"

    "The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance..."

    • 9 min
    every season something to fear

    every season something to fear

    I see the proverbial tempest in the teapot: teatime, bananas, and my iphone charger are revealed as implements of planetary destruction.

    • 9 min
    Seven Yells for Russia--Alain Bosquet

    Seven Yells for Russia--Alain Bosquet

    Alain Bosquet's 7 part poem translated from the French by Jean Malaquais. Bosquet was born in Odessa; he metaphorically returns to his homeland to find his poetic voice.

    • 9 min

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