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class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-description" > An episode from 3/12/23: Tonight, I return to new episodes with a handful of poems about the spring. As I mention, living as I do in a city usually inundated with snow, it has been bizarre to have not shoveled the driveway even once. And since the next few weeks of episodes are already planned out, it seemed appropriate to get to spring early, since the earth is doing that already. The poems are: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), “There is another sky” e. e. cummings (1894-1962), “O sweet spontaneous” Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), “This Fevers Me” Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), from “Toward an Organic Philosophy” Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from “The Tributary Seasons” Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), “Spring” (“To what purpose, April, do you return again?” Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), “The Old Yellow Shop” Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), from “Wild Peaches” Henry King (1592-1669), “A Contemplation upon Flowers” William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Act 3 of King Lear Ted Hughes (1930-1998), “Four March Watercolours”Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. </div> <div class="jetpack-podcast-player__audio-player"> <div class="jetpack-podcast-player--audio-player-loading"></div> </div> </div> <ol class="jetpack-podcast-player__tracks"> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track is-active has-primary has-black-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Anthology-Poems-for-Spring-from-the-archive-e208nbu" role="button" aria-current="track" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Anthology: Poems for Spring (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">38:06</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-black-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/The-Great-Myths-24-Sigurd--the-Dragon-from-the-archive-e2js1lo" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">The Great Myths #24: Sigurd & the Dragon (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">50:53</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-black-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Patti-Smith--Mazzy-Star--Living-Colour--Philip-Glass-from-the-archive-e2bo0la" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Patti Smith / Mazzy Star & Living Colour / Philip Glass (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">50:37</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-black-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Great-Poems-Shakespeares-To-Be-or-Not-to-Be-from-the-archive-e1mdip4" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Great Poems: Shakespeare's "To Be or Not to Be" (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">01:07:11</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-black-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Anthology-Visionary-Poems-from-Yeats--Whitman--Blake--Myth-from-the-archive-e2g920h" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Anthology: Visionary Poems from Yeats, Whitman, Blake & Myth (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">01:11:06</time> </a> </li> </ol> </section> <script type="application/json">{"attributes":{"url":"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3a88c6bc\/podcast\/rss","selectedEpisodes":[],"primaryColor":"black","hexPrimaryColor":"#000000","secondaryColor":"black","hexSecondaryColor":"#000000","backgroundColor":"cyan-bluish-gray","hexBackgroundColor":"#abb8c3","itemsToShow":5,"showCoverArt":true,"showEpisodeTitle":true,"showEpisodeDescription":true},"title":"Human Voices Wake Us","description":"The poem says, \"Human voices wake us, and we drown.\" But I\u2019ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/","cover":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/staging\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1701372572215-b9b7bd3615585.jpg","tracks":[{"id":"podcast-track-1","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/Anthology-Poems-for-Spring-from-the-archive-e208nbu","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO4511618755.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 3\/12\/23: Tonight, I return to new episodes with a handful of poems about the spring. As I mention, living as I do in a city usually inundated with snow, it has been bizarre to have not shoveled the driveway even once. 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The poems are: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), \u201cThere is another sky\u201d e. e. cummings (1894-1962), \u201cO sweet spontaneous\u201d Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), \u201cThis Fevers Me\u201d Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), from \u201cToward an Organic Philosophy\u201d Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from \u201cThe Tributary Seasons\u201d Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), \u201cSpring\u201d (\u201cTo what purpose, April, do you return again?\u201d Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), \u201cThe Old Yellow Shop\u201d Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), from \u201cWild Peaches\u201d Henry King (1592-1669), \u201cA Contemplation upon Flowers\u201d William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Act 3 of King Lear Ted Hughes (1930-1998), \u201cFour March Watercolours\u201dDon\u2019t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone.Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 3\/12\/23: <\/strong>Tonight, I return to new episodes with a handful of poems about the spring. As I mention, living as I do in a city usually inundated with snow, it has been bizarre to have not shoveled the driveway even once. And since the next few weeks of episodes are already planned out, it seemed appropriate to get to spring early, since the earth is doing that already. The poems are:<\/p><ul> <li>Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), \u201cThere is another sky\u201d<\/li> <li>e. e. cummings (1894-1962), \u201cO sweet spontaneous\u201d<\/li> <li>Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), \u201cThis Fevers Me\u201d<\/li> <li>Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), from \u201cToward an Organic Philosophy\u201d<\/li> <li>Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from \u201cThe Tributary Seasons\u201d<\/li> <li>Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), \u201cSpring\u201d (\u201cTo what purpose, April, do you return again?\u201d<\/li> <li>Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), \u201cThe Old Yellow Shop\u201d<\/li> <li>Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), from \u201cWild Peaches\u201d<\/li> <li>Henry King (1592-1669), \u201cA Contemplation upon Flowers\u201d<\/li> <li>William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Act 3 of <em>King Lear<\/em><\/li> <li>Ted Hughes (1930-1998), \u201cFour March Watercolours\u201d<\/li><\/ul><p>Don\u2019t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/humanvoiceswakeus.substack.com\/subscribe?utm_source=menu&simple=true&next=https%3A%2F%2Fhumanvoiceswakeus.substack.com%2F\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on Substack<\/a>, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Notes from the Grid<\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/024449892X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Y6491W1R5XJ1&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1674612118&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+ston%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>.<\/p><p>Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>","title":"Anthology: Poems for Spring (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/production\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1602467559296-8997d734fd2e3.jpg","guid":"6b508b10-bdb2-49f2-ab71-0dce17992f48","publish_date":"2025-03-03T18:00:00+00:00","duration":"38:06"},{"id":"podcast-track-2","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/The-Great-Myths-24-Sigurd--the-Dragon-from-the-archive-e2js1lo","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO1163717220.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 5\/20\/24: Tonight, after a long hiatus, we return to Norse myth with the story of Sigurd\u2019s killing of the dragon, Fafnir. Couched in a much longer narrative that contains shape-shifting, war, revenge, brief appearances by Odin and Loki, and finally Sigurd\u2019s ability to hear the language of birds and animals, it is a brilliant and vivid example of storytelling in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.\nI read from the two great sources of the story, the \u2060Volsung Saga\u2060 (in the Jesse Byock translation) and Snorri Sturluson\u2019s \u2060Prose Edda\u2060 (in the Anthony Faulkes translation). I also discuss the history of the story, and its reworking in the Nibelungenlied, and Wagnerian opera.\n\u2060Listen to the other Great Myths here\u2060.\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 5\/20\/24:<\/strong> Tonight, after a long hiatus, we return to Norse myth with the story of Sigurd\u2019s killing of the dragon, Fafnir. Couched in a much longer narrative that contains shape-shifting, war, revenge, brief appearances by Odin and Loki, and finally Sigurd\u2019s ability to hear the language of birds and animals, it is a brilliant and vivid example of storytelling in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.<\/p>\n<p>I read from the two great sources of the story, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Saga-Volsungs-Sigurd-Dragon-Paperback\/dp\/B005IDU1I0\/ref=sr_1_6?crid=20DET0UO23LTM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DHlSI6af78TFnyBaa5LPpkMGOx1fObA4UCQCCK0Auy8PWFt5Ou7Ma1Zc0OsTSkDiXTmhSPuGrXMkDqMPk1Xfogj354yxsh2VzdfSbXL0pQEb7G9-rUoKmxh1k864Rx1EucCfToU_xaYmEjC7HGRoMvuYEsNV4OrJmFo3CcyThZg._O6j7pSm-G6F1z45mY8Mhm0_qGQBiJJSVzVxpp9Yv4A&dib_tag=se&keywords=jesse+byock+volsung+saga&qid=1716249307&sprefix=jesse+byock+volsung+saga%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-6\">\u2060Volsung Saga\u2060<\/a> (in the Jesse Byock translation) and Snorri Sturluson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Edda-Everymans-Library-Snorri-Sturluson\/dp\/0460876163\/ref=sr_1_7?crid=3OE47IVBS1SH8&keywords=prose+edda&qid=1663176359&s=books&sprefix=prose+edda%2Cstripbooks%2C64&sr=1-7\">\u2060Prose Edda\u2060<\/a> (in the Anthony Faulkes translation). I also discuss the history of the story, and its reworking in the Nibelungenlied, and Wagnerian opera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordandsilence.com\/the-great-myths\/\">\u2060Listen to the other Great Myths here\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>","title":"The Great Myths #24: Sigurd & the Dragon (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/staging\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1701372572215-b9b7bd3615585.jpg","guid":"2b0c94d8-dfb2-4ef7-ac8e-8df74552a81c","publish_date":"2025-01-27T17:00:01+00:00","duration":"50:53"},{"id":"podcast-track-3","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/Patti-Smith--Mazzy-Star--Living-Colour--Philip-Glass-from-the-archive-e2bo0la","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO7343067708.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 11\/13\/23: Tonight, I talk about our attachment to music as teenagers and adults, and the lessons that loving music\u2014and finding meaning in musicians\u2019 life stories\u2014can teach us.\nFirst, I read two passages from Patti Smith\u2019s memoir, \u2060Just Kids\u2060. Those parts on her early life with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, before either of them were well-known, are incredibly moving. Next, I talk about my attachment to the band Mazzy Star, and then read from a listener\u2019s email about seeing the band Living Colour perform live for the first time, after years of listening to their music. Finally, I read a few passages from \u2060Words Without Music\u2060, a memoir by the composer Philip Glass.\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p>An episode from 11\/13\/23: Tonight, I talk about our attachment to music as teenagers and adults, and the lessons that loving music\u2014and finding meaning in musicians\u2019 life stories\u2014can teach us.<\/p>\n<p>First, I read two passages from Patti Smith\u2019s memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Just-Kids-Patti-Smith\/dp\/0060936223\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19ZLYZA87EP2X&keywords=just+kids&qid=1699821466&sprefix=just+kids%2Caps%2C77&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060Just Kids\u2060<\/a>. Those parts on her early life with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, before either of them were well-known, are incredibly moving. Next, I talk about my attachment to the band Mazzy Star, and then read from a listener\u2019s email about seeing the band Living Colour perform live for the first time, after years of listening to their music. Finally, I read a few passages from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Words-Without-Music-Philip-Glass\/dp\/1631491431\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DCN572KMDWRW&keywords=words+without+music&qid=1699821492&sprefix=words+without+music%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060Words Without Music\u2060<\/a>, a memoir by the composer Philip Glass.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>","title":"Patti Smith \/ Mazzy Star & Living Colour \/ Philip Glass (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/staging\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1701372572215-b9b7bd3615585.jpg","guid":"9cacb7c9-e13e-43b8-8d9e-b8d78a6ace46","publish_date":"2025-01-20T21:50:00+00:00","duration":"50:37"},{"id":"podcast-track-4","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/Great-Poems-Shakespeares-To-Be-or-Not-to-Be-from-the-archive-e1mdip4","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO9799777989.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 8\/12\/22: Everybody knows the most famous soliloquy in all of drama, or at least the first line of it: \u2060\"To be or not to be, that is the question,\"\u2060 from act three of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Tonight, I delve into the speech and try to figure out why it works so well not just as poetry and drama, but why it has leapt beyond literature entirely to become a cultural touchstone.\nThroughout the episode I include the performance of this speech from modern actors: the first is by \u2060Paapa Essiedu\u2060, and the second by \u2060Andrew Scott\u2060. The very last, to give a sense of what the original pronunciation of the speech would have sounded like, is performed by \u2060Ben Crystal\u2060. A larger compilation of nine different versions \u2060can be found here\u2060.\nThe books read from in this episode are Ben and David Crystal\u2019s \u2060Shakespeare\u2019s Words: A Glossary and Language Companion\u2060, Marjorie Garber\u2019s \u2060Shakespeare After All\u2060, and Peter Ackroyd\u2019s \u2060Shakespeare: The Biography\u2060.\n\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 8\/12\/22: <\/strong>Everybody knows the most famous soliloquy in all of drama, or at least the first line of it: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_be,_or_not_to_be\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>\"To be or not to be, that is the question,\"<\/strong>\u2060<\/a> from act three of Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet<\/em>. Tonight, I delve into the speech and try to figure out why it works so well not just as poetry and drama, but why it has leapt beyond literature entirely to become a cultural touchstone.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the episode I include the performance of this speech from modern actors: the first is by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7dZMJM-LGzQ&t=135s\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Paapa Essiedu<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>, and the second by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q6CLdCl9TB0\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Andrew Scott<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>. The very last, to give a sense of what the original pronunciation of the speech would have sounded like, is performed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qYiYd9RcK5M\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Ben Crystal<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>. A larger compilation of nine different versions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qiC3oISKVhI\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>can be found here<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The books read from in this episode are Ben and David Crystal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeares-Words-Glossary-Language-Companion\/dp\/0140291172\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2623SIPIMQXG&keywords=ben+crystal+shakespeare&qid=1660271463&sprefix=ben+crystal+shakespear%2Caps%2C73&sr=8-2\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Shakespeare\u2019s Words: A Glossary and Language Companion<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>, Marjorie Garber\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeare-After-All-Marjorie-Garber\/dp\/0385722141\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=marjorie+garber+shakespeare+after+all&qid=1660271535&sprefix=marjorie+gar%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Shakespeare After All<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>, and Peter Ackroyd\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeare-Biography-Peter-Ackroyd\/dp\/140007598X\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3FEQ7XIRPE0C&keywords=peter+ackroyd+shakespeare&qid=1660271556&sprefix=peter+ackroyd+shakespear%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-2\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Shakespeare: The Biography<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>","title":"Great Poems: Shakespeare's \"To Be or Not to Be\" (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/production\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1602467559296-8997d734fd2e3.jpg","guid":"bab69d35-ad08-4bff-8dac-2afed4561b50","publish_date":"2025-01-13T18:00:00+00:00","duration":"01:07:11"},{"id":"podcast-track-5","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/Anthology-Visionary-Poems-from-Yeats--Whitman--Blake--Myth-from-the-archive-e2g920h","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO9283255036.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 3\/3\/24: Tonight, I read from a handful of what I call \u201cvisionary\u201d poems. After an introductory section of familiar nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, I go back to the sources of those, which are found in religious scripture and myth:\n\n W. B. Yeats: \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d\n T. S. Eliot: sections from The Waste Land and \u201cEast Coker\u201d\n Walt Whitman: the first section of \u201cCrossing Brooklyn Ferry\u201d\n William Wordsworth: from the thirteenth book of The Prelude\n William Blake: from his long poem Milton\n The first chapter of Ezekiel (from the JPS audio Tanakh)\n A speech from Euripides\u2019s Bacchae, tr. William Arrowsmith\n Part of the eleventh book of the Bhagavad-Gita, tr. by Amit Majmudar in his Godsong\n I close the episode with a reading that will not surprise long-time listeners.\n\n\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 3\/3\/24: <\/strong>Tonight, I read from a handful of what I call \u201cvisionary\u201d poems. After an introductory section of familiar nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, I go back to the sources of those, which are found in religious scripture and myth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n <li><strong>W. B. Yeats<\/strong>: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43290\/the-second-coming\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Second Coming<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n <li><strong>T. S. Eliot<\/strong>: sections from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/47311\/the-waste-land\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Waste Land<\/a> and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidgorman.com\/4quartets\/2-coker.htm\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">East Coker<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n <li><strong>Walt Whitman<\/strong>: the first section of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45470\/crossing-brooklyn-ferry\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Brooklyn Ferry<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n <li><strong>William Wordsworth<\/strong>: from the thirteenth book of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordandsilence.com\/2018\/08\/08\/wordsworths-1805-prelude-book-13-the-perfect-image-of-a-mighty-mind-of-one-that-feeds-upon-infinity\/\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Prelude<\/a><\/li>\n <li><strong>William Blake<\/strong>: from his long poem <a href=\"https:\/\/erdman.blakearchive.org\/#b1.15\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Milton<\/a><\/li>\n <li>The first chapter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sefaria.org\/Ezekiel.1?lang=bi\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ezekiel<\/a><strong> <\/strong>(from the <a href=\"https:\/\/jps.org\/jps-audio-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">JPS audio Tanakh<\/a>)<\/li>\n <li>A speech from <strong>Euripides<\/strong>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/lit-campus-only\/primary\/translations\/Euripides%20Bac.pdf\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bacchae<\/a>, tr. William Arrowsmith<\/li>\n <li>Part of the eleventh book of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Godsong-Verse-Translation-Bhagavad-Gita-Commentary\/dp\/1524733474\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bhagavad-Gita<\/a>, tr. by Amit Majmudar in his <strong>Godsong<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>I close the episode with a reading that will not surprise long-time listeners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.\n<\/p>","title":"Anthology: Visionary Poems from Yeats, Whitman, Blake & Myth (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/staging\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1701372572215-b9b7bd3615585.jpg","guid":"34ccedbf-32a3-45ec-b262-3e5d563486a6","publish_date":"2025-01-06T18:40:00+00:00","duration":"01:11:06"}],"playerId":"jetpack-podcast-player-block-8688-1"}</script> </div> <p><span style="color:#000000"><em>One of the longer myths I’ll post here, the following story is well worth it, and is indeed a master-class in mythology and folklore. Containing shape-changes, chase scenes, mysterious births, borrowed identities, and competitions of all kinds, it is in the best sense a holy mess, including its sudden and (to us) perhaps unsatisfying ending. The story also bears all the hallmarks of being a combination of many tales and poems, including a later overlay of Christian commentary and detail. It is also a wonderful example of how strange the greatest myths are, and how titanic being in the presence of great poetry (and great poets) can be. Enjoy.</em></span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000"><em><strong>The Tale of Gwion Bach</strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">In the days when Arthur began to rule, there was a nobleman living in the land now called Penllyn. His name was Tegid Foel, and his patrimony – according to the story – was the body of water that is known today as Llyn Tegid.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">And the story says that he had a wife, and that she was named Ceridwen. She was a magician, says the text, and learned in the three arts: magic, enchantment, and divination. The text also says that Tegid and Ceridwen had a son whose looks, shape and carriage were extraordinarily odious. They named him Morfran, “Great-crow,” but in the end they called him Afagddu, “Utter darkness,” on account of his gloomy appearance. Because of his wretched looks his mother grew very sad in her heart, for she saw clearly that there was neither manner nor means for her son to win acceptance amongst the nobility unless he possessed qualities different from his looks. And so to encompass this matter, she turned her thoughts to contemplation of her arts to see how best she could make him full of the spirit of prophecy and a great prognosticator of the world to come.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">After laboring long in her arts, she discovered that there was a way of achieving such knowledge by the special properties of the earth’s herbs and by human effort and cunning. This was the method: choose and gather certain kinds of the earth’s herbs on certain days and hours, put them all in a cauldron of water, and set the cauldron on the fire. It had to be kindled continually in order to boil the cauldron day and night for a year and a day. In that time, she would see ultimately that three drops containing all the virtues of the multitude of herbs would spring forth; on whatever man those three drops fell, she would see that he would be extraordinarily learned in various arts and full of the spirit of prophecy. Furthermore, she would see that all the juice of those herbs except the three aforementioned drops would be as powerful a poison as there could be in the world, and that it would shatter the cauldron and spill the poison across the land.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">(Indeed, this tale is illogical and contrary to faith and piety; but as before:) the text of the story shows clearly that she collected great numbers of the earth’s herbs, that she put them into a cauldron of water, and put it on the fire. The story says that she engaged an old blind man to stir the cauldron and tend it, but it says nothing of his name any more than it says who the author of this tale was. However, it does name the lad who was leading this man: Gwion Bach, whom Ceridwen set to stoke the fire under the cauldron. In this way, each kept to his own job, kindling the fire, tending the cauldron, and stirring it, with Ceridwen keeping it full of water and herbs till the end of a year and a day. At that time Ceridwen took hold of Morfran, her son, and stationed him close to the cauldron to receive the drops when their hour to spring forth from the pot arrived. Then Ceridwen set her haunches down to rest.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">She was asleep at the moment the three marvellous drops sprung from the cauldron, and they fell upon Gwion Bach, who had shoved Morfran out of the way. Thereupon the cauldron uttered a cry and, from the strength of the poison, shattered. Then Ceridwen woke from her sleep, like one crazed, and saw Gwion. He was filled with wisdom, and could perceive that her mood was so poisonous that she would utterly destroy him as soon as she discovered how he had deprived her son of the marvellous drops. So he took to his heels and fled. But as soon as Ceridwen recovered from her madness, she examined her son, who told her the full account of how Gwion drove him away from where she had stationed him.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">She rushed out of the house in a frenzy in pursuit of Gwion Bach, and the story says that she saw him fleeing swiftly in the form of a hare. She turned herself into a black greyhound and pursued him from one place to another. Finally, after a long pursuit in various shapes, she pressed him so hard that he was forced to flee into a barn where there was a pile of winnowed wheat. There he turned himself into one of the grain; what Ceridwen did then was to change herself into a tufted black hen, and the story says that in this form she swallowed Gwion into her belly.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">She carried him there for nine months, at which time she got deliverance of him. But when she gazed upon him after he had come into the world, she could not in her heart do him any physical harm herself, nor could she bear to see anyone else do it. In the end she had the prince put into a coracle or hide-covered basket, which she had fitted snugly all around him; then she caused it to be cast into the lake – according to some books, but some say he was put into a river, others that she had him put into the sea – where he was found a long time afterwards, as the present work will show when the time comes.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000"><em><strong>The Tale of Taliesin</strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">In the days when Maelgwn Gwynedd was holding court in Castell Deganwy, there was a holy man named Cybi living in Môn. Also in that time there lived a wealthy squire near Caer Deganwy, and the story says he was called Gwyddno Garanhir (he was a lord). The text says that he had a weir on the shore of the Conway adjacent to the sea, in which was caught as much as ten pounds worth of salmon every even of All Hallows. The tale also says that Gwyddno had a son called Elphin son of Gwyddno, who was in service in the court of King Maelgwyn. The text says that he was a noble and generous man, much loved among his companions, but that he was an incorrigible spendthrift – as are the majority of courtiers. As long as Gwyddno’s wealth lasted, Elphin did not lack for money to spend among his friends. By as Gwyddno’s riches began to dwindle, he stopped lavishing money on his son. The latter regretfully informed his friends that he was no longer able to maintain a social life and keep company with them in the manner he had been accustomed to in the past, because his father had fallen on hard times. But as before, he asked some of the men of the court to request fish from the weir as a gift to him on the next All Hallow’s eve; they did that and Gwyddno granted their petition.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">And so when the day and the time arrived, Elphin took some servants with him, and came to set up and watch the weir, which he tended from the high tide until the ebb.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">When Elphin and his people came within the arms of the weir, they saw there neither head nor tail of a single young salmon; its sides were usually full of such on that night. But the story says that on this occasion he saw nothing but some dark hulk within the enclosure. On account of that, he lowered his head and began to protest his ill-fortune, saying as he turned homeward that his misery and misfortune were greater than those of any man in the world. Then it occurred to him to turn around and see what the thing in the weir was. Immediately, he found a coracle or hide-covered basket, wrapped from above as well as from below. Without delay, he took his knife and cut a slit in the hide, revealing a human forehead.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">As soon as Elphin saw the forehead, he said, “behold, the radiant forehead (i. e., tal iesin)!” To those words the child replied from the coracle, “Tal-iesin he is!” People suppose that this was the spirit of Gwion Bach, who had been in the womb of Ceridwen; after she was delivered of him, she had cast him into fresh water or into the sea, as the present work shows above. He had been in the pouch, floating about in the sea, from the beginning of Arthur’s time until about the beginning of Maelgwn’s time – and that was approximately forty years.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Indeed, this is far from reason and sense. But as before, I will keep to the story, which says that Elphin took the bundle and placed it in a basket upon one of the horses. Thereupon, Taliesin sang the stanzas known as Dehuddiant Elphin, “Elphin’s Consolation,” saying as follows:</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Fair Elphin, cease your weeping!</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Despair brings no profit.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">No catch in Gwyddno’s weir</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Was ever as good as tonight’s.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Let no one revile what is his.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Man sees not what nurtures him;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Gwyddno’s prayers shall not be in vain.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">God breaks not his promises.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks!</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">It does not become you to be sad.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Though you think you got not gain</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Undue grief will bring you nothing –</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Nor will doubting the miracles of the Lord.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Though I am small, I am gifted.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From the sea and the mountain, from rivers’ depths</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">God sends bounty to the blessed.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Elphin of the cheerful disposition –</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Meek is your mind –</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">You must not lament so heavily.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Better God than gloomy foreboding.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Though I am frail and little</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And wet with the spume of Dylan’s sea,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I shall earn in a day of contention</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Riches better than three score for you.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Elphin of the remarkable qualities.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Grieve not for your catch.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Though I am frail here in my bunting,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">There are wonders on my tongue.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">You must not fear greatly</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">While I am watching over you.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">By remembering the name of the Trinity</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">None can overcome you.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Together with various other stanzas which he sang to cheer Elphin along the path from there toward home, where Elphin turned over his catch to his wife. She raised him lovingly and dearly.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">From that moment on, Elphin’s wealth increased more and more each succeeding day, as well as his favor and acceptance with the king. Some while after this, at the feast of Christmas, the king was holding open court at Deganwy Castle, and all his lords – both spiritual and temporal – were there, with a multitude of knights and squires. Their conversation grew, as they queried one another, saying:</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">“Is there in the entire world a man as powerful as Maelgwn? Or one to whom the heavenly father has given as many spiritual gifts as God has given him: beauty, shape, nobility, and strength, besides all the powers of the soul?” And with these gifts, they proclaimed that the Father had given him an excellent gift, one that surpassed all of the others, namely, the beauty, appearance, demeanor, wisdom, and faithfulness of his queen. In these virtues, she excelled all the ladies and daughters of the nobility in the entire land. Beside that, they asked themselves: “whose men are more valiant? Whose horses and hounds are swifter and fairer? Whose bards more proficient and wiser than Maelgwn’s?”</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">At that time poets were received with great esteem among the eminent ones of the realm. And in those days, none of whom we now call “heralds” were appointed to that office, unless they were learned men, and not only in the proper service of kinds and princes, but steeped and skilled in pedigrees, arms, the deeds of kings and princes of foreign kingdoms as well as the ancestors of this kingdom, especially in the history of the chief nobility. Furthermore, each of these bards had to have their responses readily prepared in various languages, such as Latin, French, Welsh, and English, and in addition, be a great historian and good chronicler, be skilled in the composition of poetry and ready to compose metrical stanzas in each of these languages. On this feast, there was in the court of Maelgwn no less than twenty-four of these; chief among them was the one called Heinin Fardd the Poet.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">And so after everyone had spoken in praise of the king and his blessings, Elphin happened to say this: “Indeed, no one can compete with a king except another king; but, truly, were he not a king, I would surely say that I had a wife as chaste as any lady in the kingdom. Furthermore, I have a bard who is more proficient than all the king’s bards.”</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Some time later, the king’s companions told him the extent of Elphin’s boast, and the king commanded that he be put into a secure prison until he could get confirmation of his wife’s chastity and his poet’s knowledge. And after putting Elphin in one of the castle towers with a heavy chain on his feet (some people say it was a silver chain that was put upon him, because hew as of the king’s blood), the story says that the king sent his son Rhun to test the continence of Elphin’s wife. It says that Rhun was one of the lustiest men in the world, and that neither woman nor maiden with whom he had spent a diverting moment came away with her reputation intact. </span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">As Rhun was hastening toward Elphin’s residence, fully intending to despoil Elphin’s wife, Taliesin was explaining to her how the king had thrown his master into prison and how Rhun was hurrying there with the intention of corrupting her virtue. Because of that he had his mistress dress one of the scullery maids in her own garb. The lady did this cheerfully and unstintingly, adorning the maid’s fingers with the finest rings that she and her husband possessed. In this guise, Taliesin had his mistress seat the girl in her own chamber to sup at her own table and in her own place; Taliesin had made the girl look like his mistress, his mistress like the girl.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">As they sat most handsomely at their supper in the manner described above, Rhun appeared suddenly at the court of Elphin. He was received cheerfully, for all the servants knew him well. They escorted him without delay to their mistress’s chamber. The girl disguised as the mistress rose from her supper and greeted him pleasantly, then sat back down to her meal, and Rhun with her. He began to beguile the girl with seductive talk, while she preserved the mien of her mistress. </span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">The story says that the maiden got so inebriated that she fell asleep. It says that Rhun had put a powder in her drink that made her sleep so heavily – if the tale can be believed – that she didn’t even feel him cutting off her little finger, around which was Elphin’s signet ring that he had sent to his wife as a token a short time before. In this way he did his will with the maiden, and afterwards, he took the finger – with the ring on it – to the king as proof. He told him that he had violated her chastity, explaining how he had cut off her finger as he left, without her awakening.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">The king took great delight in this news, and, because of it, summoned his council, to whom he explained the whole affair from one end to the other. Then he had Elphin brought from the prison to taunt him for his boast, and said to him as follows:</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">“It should be clear to you, Elphin, and beyond doubt, that it is nothing but foolishness for any man in the world to trust his wife in the matter of chastity any farther than he can see her. And so that you may harbor no doubts that your wife broke her marriage vows last night, here is her finger as evidence for you, with your own signet ring on it; the one who lay with her cut it off her hand while she slept. So that there is no way that you can argue that she did not violate her fidelity.”</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">To this Elphin replied, “With your permission, honorable king, indeed, there is no way I can deny my ring, for a number of people know it. But, indeed, I do deny vehemently that the finger encircled by my ring was ever on my wife’s hand, for one sees there three peculiar things not one of which ever characterized a single finger of my wife’s hands. The first of these is that – with your grace’s permission – wherever my wife is at this moment, whether she is sitting, standing, or lying down, this ring will not even fit her thumb! And you can easily see that if was difficult to force the ring over the knuckle of the little finger of the hand from which it was cut. The second thing is that my wife has never gone a single Saturday since I have known here without paring her nails before going to bed. And you can see clearly that the nail of this finger has not been cut for a month. And the third thing, indeed, is that the hand from which this finger was cut kneaded rye dough within the past three days, and I assure you, your graciousness, that my wife has not kneaded rye dough since she became my wife.”</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">The story says that the king became more outraged at Elphin for standing so firmly against him in the matter of his wife’s fidelity. As a result, the king ordered him to be imprisoned again, saying that he would not gain release from there until he proved true his boast about the wisdom of his bard as well as about the fidelity of his wife.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Those two, meanwhile, were in Elphin’s palace, taking their ease. Then Taliesin related to his mistress how Elphin was in prison on account of them. But he exhorted her to be of good cheer, explaining to her how he would go to the court of Maelgwn to free his master. She asked him how he could set his master free, and he replied as follows:</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">I shall set out on foot,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Come to the gate,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And make for the hall.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I shall sing my song</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And proclaim my verse,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the lord’s bards I shall inhibit:</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Before the chief one</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I shall make demands,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And I shall overcome them.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And when the contention comes</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In the presence of the chieftains,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And a summons of the minstrels</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">For precise and harmonious songs</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In the court of the scions of nobles,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Companion to Gwion,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">There are some who assumed the appearance</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Of anguish and great pains.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">They shall fall silent by rough words,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">If it ever grows ever worse, like Arthur, Chief of givers,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">With his blades long and red</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From the blood of nobles;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The king’s battle against his enemies,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Whose gentles’ blood flows</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From the battle of the woods in the distant North.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">May there be neither blessing nor beauty</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">On Maelgwn Gwynedd,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">But let the wrong be avenged –</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the violence and arrogance – finally,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">For the act of Rhun his offspring:</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Let his lands be desolate,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Let his life be short,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Let the punishment last long</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">on Maelgwn Gwynedd.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">And after that he took leave of his mistress, and came at last to the court of Maelgwn Gwynedd. The latter, in his royal dignity, was going to sit in his hall at supper, as kings and princes were accustomed to do on every high feast in those days.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">And as soon as Taliesin came into the hall, he saw a place for himself to sit in an inconspicuous corner, beside the place where the poets and minstrels had to pass to pay their respects and duty to the king – as is still customary in proclaiming largesse in the courts on high holidays, except that they are proclaimed now in French. And so the time came for the bards or the heralds to come and proclaim the largesse, power, and might of the king. They came past the spot where Taliesin sat hunched over in the corner, and as they went by, he puckered his lips and with his finger made a sound like blerum blerum. Those going past paid no attention to him, but continued on until they stood before the king. They performed their customary curtsy as they were obliged to do; not a single word came from their mouths, but they puckered up, made faces at the king, and made the blerum blerum sound on their lips with their fingers as they had seen the lad do it earlier. The sight astonished the king, and he wondered to himself whether they had had too much to drink. So he ordered one of the lords who was administering to his table to go to them and ask them to summon their wits and reflect upon where they were standing and what they were obliged to do. The lord complied.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">But they did not stop their nonsense directly, so he sent to them again, and a third time, ordering them to leave the hall; finally, the king asked one of the squires to clout their chief, the one called Heinin Fardd. The squire seized a platter and struck him over the head with it until he fell back on his rump. From that spot, he rose up onto his knees whence he begged the king’s mercy and leave to show him that it was neither of the two failings on them – neither lack of intelligence nor drunkenness – but due to some spirit that was inside the hall. And then Heinin said as follows: “O glorious king! Let it be known to your grace, that it is not from the pickling effect of a surfeit of spirits that we stand here dumb, unable to speak properly, like drunkards, but because of a spirit, who sits in the corner yonder, in the guise of a little man.”</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Whereupon, the king ordered a squire to fetch him. He went to the corner where Taliesin sat, and brought him thence before the king, who asked him what sort of thing he was and whence he came. He answered the king in verse, and spoke as follows:</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Offical chief-poet</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">to Elphin am I,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And my native abode</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">is the land of the Cherubim.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Then the king asked him what he was called, and he answered him saying this:</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Johannes the prophet</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">called me Merlin,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">But now all kings</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">call me Taliesin.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Then the king asked him where he had been, and thereupon he recited his history to the king, as follows here in this work:</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">I was with my lord</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">in the heavens</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">When Lucifer fell</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">into the depths of hell;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I carried a banner</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">before Alexander;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I know the stars’ names</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">from the North to the South</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was in the fort of Gwydion,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">in the Tetragramaton;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was in the canon</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">when Absalon was killed;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I brought seed down </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">to the vale of Hebron;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was in the court of Dôn</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">before the birth of Gwydion;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was patriarch </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">to Elijah and Enoch;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was head keeper</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">of the work of Nimrod’s tower;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was atop the cross</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">of the merciful son of God;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was three times</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">in the prison of Arianrhod;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was in the ark</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">with Noah and Alpha;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I witnessed the destruction</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">of Sodom and Gomorrah;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was in Africa</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">before the building of Rome;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I came here</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">to the survivors of Troy.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And I was with my lord</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">in the manger of oxen and asses;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I upheld Moses </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">through the water of Jordan;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was in the sky</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">with Mary Magdalen;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I got poetic inspiration </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">from the cauldron of Ceridwen;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was poet-harper</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">to Llon Llychlyn;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was in Gwynfryn</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">in the court of Cynfelyn;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In stock and fetters</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">a day and a year.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">I was revealed</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">in the land of the Trinity;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And I was moved</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">through the entire universe;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And I shall remain till doomsday,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">upon the face of the earth.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And no one knows what my flesh is –</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">whether meat or fish.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And I was nearly nine months</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">in the womb of the witch of Ceridwen;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I was formerly Gwion Bach,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">but now I am Taliesin.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">And the story says that this song amazed the king and his court greatly. Then he sang a song to explain to the king and his people why he had come there and what we was attempting to do, as the following poem sets forth.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Provincial bards! I am contending!</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To refrain I am unable.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I shall proclaim in prophetic song</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To those that will listen.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And I seek that loss</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">That I suffer:</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Elphin, from the punishment </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Of Caer Deganwy.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And from him, my lord will pull</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The binding chain.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The Chair of Caer Deganwy –</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Mighty is my pride –</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Three hundred songs and more</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Are the songs I shall sing;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">No bard that knows them not</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Shall merit spear</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Nor stone nor ring,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Nor remain about me.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Elphin son of Gwyddno</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Suffers torment now,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">’Neath thirtheen locks</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">For praising his master-bard.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And I am Taliesin,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Chief-poet of the West,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And I shall release Elphin</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From the gilded fetters.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">After this, as the text shows, he sang a song of succor, and they say that instantly a tempestuous wind arose, until the king and his people felt that the castle would fall upon them. Because of that, the king had Elphin fetched from prison in a hurry, and brought to the side of Taliesin. He is said to have sung a song at that moment that resulted in the opening of the fetters from around his feet – indeed, in my opinion, it is very difficult for anyone to believe that this tale is true. But I will continue the story with as many of the poems by him as I have seen written down.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Following this, he sang the verses called “Interrogation of the Bards,” which follows herewith.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">What being first</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Made Alpha?</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">What is the fairest refined language</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Designed by the Lord?</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">What food? What drink?</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Whose raiment prudent?</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Who endured rejection</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From a deceitful land?</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Why is a stone hard?</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Why is a thorn sharp?</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Who is hard as a stone,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And as salty as salt?</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Why is the nose like a ridge?</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Why is the wheel round?</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Why does the tongue articulate</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">More than any one organ?</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Then he sang a series of verses called “The Rebuke of the Bards,” and it begins like this:</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">If you are a fierce bard</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Of spirited inspiration,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Be not testy</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In your king’s court,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Unless you know the name for rimin,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the name for ramin,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the name for rimiad,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the name for ramiad,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the name of your forefather</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Before his baptism.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And the name of the firmament,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the name of the element,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the name of your language,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the name of your district.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Company of poets above,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Company of poets below;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">My darling is below</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">’Neath the fetters of Aranrhod.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">You certainly do not know</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The meaning of what my lips sing,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Nor the true distinction</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Between the true and the false.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Bards of limited horizons,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Why do you not flee?</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The bard who cannot shut me up</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Shall have no quiet</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Till he come to rest</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Beneath a gravelly grave.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And those who listen to me,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Let God listen to them.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">And after this follows the verses called “The Satire on the Bards.”</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Minstrels of malfeasance make</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Impious lyrics; in their praise</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They sing vain and evanescent song,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Ever exercising lies.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They mock guileless men</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They corrupt married women,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They despoil Mary’s chaste maidens.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Their lives and times they waste in vain,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They scorn the frail and the guileless,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They drink by night, sleep by day,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Idly, lazily, making their way.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They despise the Church</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Lurch toward the taverns;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In harmony with thieves and lechers,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They seek out courts and feasts,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Extol every idiotic utterance,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Praise every deadly sin.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They lead every manner of base life,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Roam every village, town, and land.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The distresses of death concern them not,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Never do they give lodging or alms.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Excessive food they consume.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">They rehearse neither psalms nor prayer,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Pay neither tithes nor offerings to God,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Worship not on Holy Days nor the Lord’s day,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Fast on neither Holy Days nor ember days.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Birds fly,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Fish swim,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Bees gather honey,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Vermin crawl;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Everything bustles</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To earn its keep</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Except minstrels and thieves, the lazy and worthless.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">I do not revile your minstrelsy,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">For God gave that to ward off evil blasphemy;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">But he who practices it in perfidy</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Reviles Jesus and his worship.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">After Taliesin had freed his master from prison, verified the chastity of his mistress, and silenced the bards so that none of them dared say a single word, he asked Elphin to wager the king that he had a horse faster and swifter than all the king’s horses. Elphin did that.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">On that day, time, and place determined – the place known today as Morfa Rhianedd – the king arrived with his people and twenty-four of the swiftest horses he owned. Then, after a long while, the course was set, and a place for the horses to run. Taliesin came there with twenty-four sticks of holly, burnt black. He had the lad who was riding his master’s horse put them under his belt, instructing him to let all the king’s horses go ahead of him, and as he caught up with each of them in turn, to take one of the rods and whip the horse across his rump, and then throw it to the ground. Then take another rod and do in the same manner to each of the horses as he overtook them. And he instructed the rider to observe carefully the spot where his horse finished, and throw down his cap on that spot. </span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">The lad accomplished all of this, both the whipping of each of the king’s horses as well as throwing down his cap in the place where the horse finished. Taliesin brought his master there after his horse won the race, and he and Elphin set me to work to dig a hole. When they had dug the earth to a certain depth, they found a huge cauldron of gold, and therewith Taliesin said, “Elphin, here is payment and reward for you for having brought me from the weir and raising me from that day to this.” In that very place there stands a pool of water, which from that day to this is called “Cauldon’s Pool.”</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">After that, the king said had Taliesin brought before him, and asked for information concerning the origin of the human race. Forthwith, he sang the verses that follow here below, and that are known today as one of the four pillars of song. They begin as follows:</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Here begin the prophecies of Taliesin:</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">The Lord made</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In the midst of Glen Hebron</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">With his blessed hands,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">I know, the shape of Adam.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">He made the beautiful;</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In the court of paradise,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From a rib, he put together</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Fair woman.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Seven hours they</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Tended the Orchard</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Before Satan’s strife,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Most insistent suitor.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Thence they were driven</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Through cold and chill</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To lead their lives</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In this world.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">To bear in affliction</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Sons and daughters,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To get tribute</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From the land of Asia.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">One hundred and eight</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Was she fertile,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Bearing a mixed brood,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Masculine and feminine.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And then, openly,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">When she bore Abel</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And Cain, unconcealable,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Most unredeemable.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">To Adam and his mate</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Was given a digging shovel</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To break the earth</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To gain bread.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And shining white wheat</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To sow, the instrument</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To feed all men </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Until the great feast.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Angels sent</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From God Almighty</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Brought the seed of growth</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To Eve.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">She hid</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">A tenth of the gift</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">So that not all did</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The whole garden enclose.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">But black rye was had</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In place of the fine wheat,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Showing the evil</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">For stealing.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Because of that treacherous turn,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">It is necessary, says Sattwrn,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">For each to give his tithe</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To God first.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">From crimson red wine</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Planted on a sunny days,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the moon’s night prevails </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Over white wine.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">From wheat of true privilege,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From red wine generous and privileged.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Is made the finely molded body</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Of Christ son of Alpha.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">From the wafer is the flesh.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From the wine is the flow of blood.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the words of the Trinity</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Consecrated him.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Every sort of mystical book</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Of Emmanuel’s work</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Rafael brought</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To give to Adam.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">When he was in ferment,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Above his two jaws</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Within the Jordan river</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Fasting.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Moses found,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To guard against great need,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The secret of the three</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Most famous rods.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Samson got </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Within the tower of Babylon</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">All the magical arts</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Of Asia land.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">I got, indeed,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">In my bardic song,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">All the magical arts</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Of Europe and Africa.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">And I know whence she emanates</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And her home and her hospitality,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Her fate and her destiny</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Till Doomsday.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Alas, God, how wretched,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Through excessive plaint,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Comes the prophecy </span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To the race of Troy.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">A coiled serpent,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Proud and merciless,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">With golden wings</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Out of Germany.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">It shall conquer</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">England and Scotland,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">From the shore of the Scandinavian Sea</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To the Severn.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000">Then shall the Britons be</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Like prisoners,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">With status of aliens,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">To the Saxons.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Their lord they shall praise.</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Their language preserve,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And their land they will lose –</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Save wild Wales.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Until comes a certain period</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">After long servitude,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">When shall be of equal duration</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">The two proud ones.</span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><span style="color:#000000">Then will the Britons gain</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">Their land and their crown,</span><br> <span style="color:#000000">And the foreigners</span><br> <span 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The poems are: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), “There is another sky” e. e. cummings (1894-1962), “O sweet spontaneous” Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), “This Fevers Me” Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), from “Toward an Organic Philosophy” Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from “The Tributary Seasons” Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), “Spring” (“To what purpose, April, do you return again?” Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), “The Old Yellow Shop” Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), from “Wild Peaches” Henry King (1592-1669), “A Contemplation upon Flowers” William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Act 3 of King Lear Ted Hughes (1930-1998), “Four March Watercolours”Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. </div> <div class="jetpack-podcast-player__audio-player"> <div class="jetpack-podcast-player--audio-player-loading"></div> </div> </div> <ol class="jetpack-podcast-player__tracks"> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track is-active has-primary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Anthology-Poems-for-Spring-from-the-archive-e208nbu" role="button" aria-current="track" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Anthology: Poems for Spring (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">38:06</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/The-Great-Myths-24-Sigurd--the-Dragon-from-the-archive-e2js1lo" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">The Great Myths #24: Sigurd & the Dragon (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">50:53</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Patti-Smith--Mazzy-Star--Living-Colour--Philip-Glass-from-the-archive-e2bo0la" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Patti Smith / Mazzy Star & Living Colour / Philip Glass (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">50:37</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Great-Poems-Shakespeares-To-Be-or-Not-to-Be-from-the-archive-e1mdip4" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Great Poems: Shakespeare's "To Be or Not to Be" (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">01:07:11</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Anthology-Visionary-Poems-from-Yeats--Whitman--Blake--Myth-from-the-archive-e2g920h" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Anthology: Visionary Poems from Yeats, Whitman, Blake & Myth (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">01:11:06</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/First-Person-Voices-from-1900-1914-from-the-archive-e1stqt4" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">First Person: Voices from 1900-1914 (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">57:48</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/Van-Goghs-Early-Years-from-the-archive-e1rpe41" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">Van Gogh's Early Years (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">53:29</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/William-Blake-new-episode-e2s3sp4" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">William Blake (new episode)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">31:23</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/John-Keats-The-poet-has-no-identity-from-the-archive-e10b8da" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">John Keats: "The poet has no identity" (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">27:32</time> </a> </li> <li class="jetpack-podcast-player__track has-secondary has-contrast-color" style="" > <a class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-link jetpack-podcast-player__link" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/episodes/The-Great-Myths-2-Gilgamesh--Enkidu---the-Underworld-from-the-archive-eocvc9" role="button" > <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-status-icon"></span> <span class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-title">The Great Myths #2: Gilgamesh, Enkidu, & the Underworld (from the archive)</span> <time class="jetpack-podcast-player__track-duration">18:09</time> </a> </li> </ol> </section> <script type="application/json">{"attributes":{"url":"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3a88c6bc\/podcast\/rss","itemsToShow":10,"primaryColor":"contrast","hexPrimaryColor":"#25434c","secondaryColor":"contrast","hexSecondaryColor":"#25434c","backgroundColor":"white","hexBackgroundColor":"#ffffff","selectedEpisodes":[],"showCoverArt":true,"showEpisodeTitle":true,"showEpisodeDescription":true},"title":"Human Voices Wake Us","description":"The poem says, \"Human voices wake us, and we drown.\" But I\u2019ve made this podcast with the belief that 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And since the next few weeks of episodes are already planned out, it seemed appropriate to get to spring early, since the earth is doing that already. The poems are: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), \u201cThere is another sky\u201d e. e. cummings (1894-1962), \u201cO sweet spontaneous\u201d Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), \u201cThis Fevers Me\u201d Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), from \u201cToward an Organic Philosophy\u201d Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from \u201cThe Tributary Seasons\u201d Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), \u201cSpring\u201d (\u201cTo what purpose, April, do you return again?\u201d Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), \u201cThe Old Yellow Shop\u201d Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), from \u201cWild Peaches\u201d Henry King (1592-1669), \u201cA Contemplation upon Flowers\u201d William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Act 3 of King Lear Ted Hughes (1930-1998), \u201cFour March Watercolours\u201dDon\u2019t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone.Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 3\/12\/23: <\/strong>Tonight, I return to new episodes with a handful of poems about the spring. As I mention, living as I do in a city usually inundated with snow, it has been bizarre to have not shoveled the driveway even once. And since the next few weeks of episodes are already planned out, it seemed appropriate to get to spring early, since the earth is doing that already. The poems are:<\/p><ul> <li>Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), \u201cThere is another sky\u201d<\/li> <li>e. e. cummings (1894-1962), \u201cO sweet spontaneous\u201d<\/li> <li>Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), \u201cThis Fevers Me\u201d<\/li> <li>Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), from \u201cToward an Organic Philosophy\u201d<\/li> <li>Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from \u201cThe Tributary Seasons\u201d<\/li> <li>Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), \u201cSpring\u201d (\u201cTo what purpose, April, do you return again?\u201d<\/li> <li>Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), \u201cThe Old Yellow Shop\u201d<\/li> <li>Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), from \u201cWild Peaches\u201d<\/li> <li>Henry King (1592-1669), \u201cA Contemplation upon Flowers\u201d<\/li> <li>William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Act 3 of <em>King Lear<\/em><\/li> <li>Ted Hughes (1930-1998), \u201cFour March Watercolours\u201d<\/li><\/ul><p>Don\u2019t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/humanvoiceswakeus.substack.com\/subscribe?utm_source=menu&simple=true&next=https%3A%2F%2Fhumanvoiceswakeus.substack.com%2F\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on Substack<\/a>, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Notes from the Grid<\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/024449892X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Y6491W1R5XJ1&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1674612118&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+ston%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>.<\/p><p>Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>","title":"Anthology: Poems for Spring (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/production\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1602467559296-8997d734fd2e3.jpg","guid":"6b508b10-bdb2-49f2-ab71-0dce17992f48","publish_date":"2025-03-03T18:00:00+00:00","duration":"38:06"},{"id":"podcast-track-2","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/The-Great-Myths-24-Sigurd--the-Dragon-from-the-archive-e2js1lo","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO1163717220.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 5\/20\/24: Tonight, after a long hiatus, we return to Norse myth with the story of Sigurd\u2019s killing of the dragon, Fafnir. Couched in a much longer narrative that contains shape-shifting, war, revenge, brief appearances by Odin and Loki, and finally Sigurd\u2019s ability to hear the language of birds and animals, it is a brilliant and vivid example of storytelling in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.\nI read from the two great sources of the story, the \u2060Volsung Saga\u2060 (in the Jesse Byock translation) and Snorri Sturluson\u2019s \u2060Prose Edda\u2060 (in the Anthony Faulkes translation). I also discuss the history of the story, and its reworking in the Nibelungenlied, and Wagnerian opera.\n\u2060Listen to the other Great Myths here\u2060.\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 5\/20\/24:<\/strong> Tonight, after a long hiatus, we return to Norse myth with the story of Sigurd\u2019s killing of the dragon, Fafnir. Couched in a much longer narrative that contains shape-shifting, war, revenge, brief appearances by Odin and Loki, and finally Sigurd\u2019s ability to hear the language of birds and animals, it is a brilliant and vivid example of storytelling in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.<\/p>\n<p>I read from the two great sources of the story, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Saga-Volsungs-Sigurd-Dragon-Paperback\/dp\/B005IDU1I0\/ref=sr_1_6?crid=20DET0UO23LTM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DHlSI6af78TFnyBaa5LPpkMGOx1fObA4UCQCCK0Auy8PWFt5Ou7Ma1Zc0OsTSkDiXTmhSPuGrXMkDqMPk1Xfogj354yxsh2VzdfSbXL0pQEb7G9-rUoKmxh1k864Rx1EucCfToU_xaYmEjC7HGRoMvuYEsNV4OrJmFo3CcyThZg._O6j7pSm-G6F1z45mY8Mhm0_qGQBiJJSVzVxpp9Yv4A&dib_tag=se&keywords=jesse+byock+volsung+saga&qid=1716249307&sprefix=jesse+byock+volsung+saga%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-6\">\u2060Volsung Saga\u2060<\/a> (in the Jesse Byock translation) and Snorri Sturluson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Edda-Everymans-Library-Snorri-Sturluson\/dp\/0460876163\/ref=sr_1_7?crid=3OE47IVBS1SH8&keywords=prose+edda&qid=1663176359&s=books&sprefix=prose+edda%2Cstripbooks%2C64&sr=1-7\">\u2060Prose Edda\u2060<\/a> (in the Anthony Faulkes translation). I also discuss the history of the story, and its reworking in the Nibelungenlied, and Wagnerian opera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordandsilence.com\/the-great-myths\/\">\u2060Listen to the other Great Myths here\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>","title":"The Great Myths #24: Sigurd & the Dragon (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/staging\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1701372572215-b9b7bd3615585.jpg","guid":"2b0c94d8-dfb2-4ef7-ac8e-8df74552a81c","publish_date":"2025-01-27T17:00:01+00:00","duration":"50:53"},{"id":"podcast-track-3","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/Patti-Smith--Mazzy-Star--Living-Colour--Philip-Glass-from-the-archive-e2bo0la","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO7343067708.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 11\/13\/23: Tonight, I talk about our attachment to music as teenagers and adults, and the lessons that loving music\u2014and finding meaning in musicians\u2019 life stories\u2014can teach us.\nFirst, I read two passages from Patti Smith\u2019s memoir, \u2060Just Kids\u2060. Those parts on her early life with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, before either of them were well-known, are incredibly moving. Next, I talk about my attachment to the band Mazzy Star, and then read from a listener\u2019s email about seeing the band Living Colour perform live for the first time, after years of listening to their music. Finally, I read a few passages from \u2060Words Without Music\u2060, a memoir by the composer Philip Glass.\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p>An episode from 11\/13\/23: Tonight, I talk about our attachment to music as teenagers and adults, and the lessons that loving music\u2014and finding meaning in musicians\u2019 life stories\u2014can teach us.<\/p>\n<p>First, I read two passages from Patti Smith\u2019s memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Just-Kids-Patti-Smith\/dp\/0060936223\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19ZLYZA87EP2X&keywords=just+kids&qid=1699821466&sprefix=just+kids%2Caps%2C77&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060Just Kids\u2060<\/a>. Those parts on her early life with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, before either of them were well-known, are incredibly moving. Next, I talk about my attachment to the band Mazzy Star, and then read from a listener\u2019s email about seeing the band Living Colour perform live for the first time, after years of listening to their music. Finally, I read a few passages from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Words-Without-Music-Philip-Glass\/dp\/1631491431\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DCN572KMDWRW&keywords=words+without+music&qid=1699821492&sprefix=words+without+music%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060Words Without Music\u2060<\/a>, a memoir by the composer Philip Glass.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>","title":"Patti Smith \/ Mazzy Star & Living Colour \/ Philip Glass (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/staging\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1701372572215-b9b7bd3615585.jpg","guid":"9cacb7c9-e13e-43b8-8d9e-b8d78a6ace46","publish_date":"2025-01-20T21:50:00+00:00","duration":"50:37"},{"id":"podcast-track-4","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/Great-Poems-Shakespeares-To-Be-or-Not-to-Be-from-the-archive-e1mdip4","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO9799777989.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 8\/12\/22: Everybody knows the most famous soliloquy in all of drama, or at least the first line of it: \u2060\"To be or not to be, that is the question,\"\u2060 from act three of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Tonight, I delve into the speech and try to figure out why it works so well not just as poetry and drama, but why it has leapt beyond literature entirely to become a cultural touchstone.\nThroughout the episode I include the performance of this speech from modern actors: the first is by \u2060Paapa Essiedu\u2060, and the second by \u2060Andrew Scott\u2060. The very last, to give a sense of what the original pronunciation of the speech would have sounded like, is performed by \u2060Ben Crystal\u2060. A larger compilation of nine different versions \u2060can be found here\u2060.\nThe books read from in this episode are Ben and David Crystal\u2019s \u2060Shakespeare\u2019s Words: A Glossary and Language Companion\u2060, Marjorie Garber\u2019s \u2060Shakespeare After All\u2060, and Peter Ackroyd\u2019s \u2060Shakespeare: The Biography\u2060.\n\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 8\/12\/22: <\/strong>Everybody knows the most famous soliloquy in all of drama, or at least the first line of it: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_be,_or_not_to_be\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>\"To be or not to be, that is the question,\"<\/strong>\u2060<\/a> from act three of Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet<\/em>. Tonight, I delve into the speech and try to figure out why it works so well not just as poetry and drama, but why it has leapt beyond literature entirely to become a cultural touchstone.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the episode I include the performance of this speech from modern actors: the first is by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7dZMJM-LGzQ&t=135s\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Paapa Essiedu<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>, and the second by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q6CLdCl9TB0\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Andrew Scott<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>. The very last, to give a sense of what the original pronunciation of the speech would have sounded like, is performed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qYiYd9RcK5M\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Ben Crystal<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>. A larger compilation of nine different versions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qiC3oISKVhI\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>can be found here<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The books read from in this episode are Ben and David Crystal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeares-Words-Glossary-Language-Companion\/dp\/0140291172\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2623SIPIMQXG&keywords=ben+crystal+shakespeare&qid=1660271463&sprefix=ben+crystal+shakespear%2Caps%2C73&sr=8-2\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Shakespeare\u2019s Words: A Glossary and Language Companion<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>, Marjorie Garber\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeare-After-All-Marjorie-Garber\/dp\/0385722141\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=marjorie+garber+shakespeare+after+all&qid=1660271535&sprefix=marjorie+gar%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Shakespeare After All<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>, and Peter Ackroyd\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeare-Biography-Peter-Ackroyd\/dp\/140007598X\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3FEQ7XIRPE0C&keywords=peter+ackroyd+shakespeare&qid=1660271556&sprefix=peter+ackroyd+shakespear%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-2\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>Shakespeare: The Biography<\/strong>\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>","title":"Great Poems: Shakespeare's \"To Be or Not to Be\" (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/production\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1602467559296-8997d734fd2e3.jpg","guid":"bab69d35-ad08-4bff-8dac-2afed4561b50","publish_date":"2025-01-13T18:00:00+00:00","duration":"01:07:11"},{"id":"podcast-track-5","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/Anthology-Visionary-Poems-from-Yeats--Whitman--Blake--Myth-from-the-archive-e2g920h","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO9283255036.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 3\/3\/24: Tonight, I read from a handful of what I call \u201cvisionary\u201d poems. After an introductory section of familiar nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, I go back to the sources of those, which are found in religious scripture and myth:\n\n W. B. Yeats: \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d\n T. S. Eliot: sections from The Waste Land and \u201cEast Coker\u201d\n Walt Whitman: the first section of \u201cCrossing Brooklyn Ferry\u201d\n William Wordsworth: from the thirteenth book of The Prelude\n William Blake: from his long poem Milton\n The first chapter of Ezekiel (from the JPS audio Tanakh)\n A speech from Euripides\u2019s Bacchae, tr. William Arrowsmith\n Part of the eleventh book of the Bhagavad-Gita, tr. by Amit Majmudar in his Godsong\n I close the episode with a reading that will not surprise long-time listeners.\n\n\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 3\/3\/24: <\/strong>Tonight, I read from a handful of what I call \u201cvisionary\u201d poems. After an introductory section of familiar nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, I go back to the sources of those, which are found in religious scripture and myth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n <li><strong>W. B. Yeats<\/strong>: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43290\/the-second-coming\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Second Coming<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n <li><strong>T. S. Eliot<\/strong>: sections from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/47311\/the-waste-land\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Waste Land<\/a> and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidgorman.com\/4quartets\/2-coker.htm\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">East Coker<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n <li><strong>Walt Whitman<\/strong>: the first section of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45470\/crossing-brooklyn-ferry\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Brooklyn Ferry<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n <li><strong>William Wordsworth<\/strong>: from the thirteenth book of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordandsilence.com\/2018\/08\/08\/wordsworths-1805-prelude-book-13-the-perfect-image-of-a-mighty-mind-of-one-that-feeds-upon-infinity\/\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Prelude<\/a><\/li>\n <li><strong>William Blake<\/strong>: from his long poem <a href=\"https:\/\/erdman.blakearchive.org\/#b1.15\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Milton<\/a><\/li>\n <li>The first chapter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sefaria.org\/Ezekiel.1?lang=bi\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ezekiel<\/a><strong> <\/strong>(from the <a href=\"https:\/\/jps.org\/jps-audio-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">JPS audio Tanakh<\/a>)<\/li>\n <li>A speech from <strong>Euripides<\/strong>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/lit-campus-only\/primary\/translations\/Euripides%20Bac.pdf\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bacchae<\/a>, tr. William Arrowsmith<\/li>\n <li>Part of the eleventh book of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Godsong-Verse-Translation-Bhagavad-Gita-Commentary\/dp\/1524733474\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bhagavad-Gita<\/a>, tr. by Amit Majmudar in his <strong>Godsong<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>I close the episode with a reading that will not surprise long-time listeners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.\n<\/p>","title":"Anthology: Visionary Poems from Yeats, Whitman, Blake & Myth (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/staging\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1701372572215-b9b7bd3615585.jpg","guid":"34ccedbf-32a3-45ec-b262-3e5d563486a6","publish_date":"2025-01-06T18:40:00+00:00","duration":"01:11:06"},{"id":"podcast-track-6","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/First-Person-Voices-from-1900-1914-from-the-archive-e1stqt4","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO9347442197.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 1\/2\/23: Tonight, I read a handful of voices from those living in Europe and the United States between 1900 and 1914. Rephrased only slightly, nearly all of their concerns (over technology, gender, nationalism, war, eugenics) feel like they could appear in the news or on the street today. Then and now, what is actually going on alongside all the dread? What can we learn from these voices that sound so much like our own, and what will people look back on 2023 learn for themselves?\nEach of these quotations can be found in Philipp Blom\u2019s wonderful book,\u00a0\u2060The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914\u2060.\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 1\/2\/23:<\/strong> Tonight, I read a handful of voices from those living in Europe and the United States between 1900 and 1914. Rephrased only slightly, nearly all of their concerns (over technology, gender, nationalism, war, eugenics) feel like they could appear in the news or on the street today. Then and now, what is actually going on alongside all the dread? What can we learn from these voices that sound so much like our own, and what will people look back on 2023 learn for themselves?<\/p>\n<p>Each of these quotations can be found in Philipp Blom\u2019s wonderful book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vertigo-Years-Europe-1900-1914\/dp\/0465020291\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471307551&sr=8-1&keywords=vertigo+years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">\u2060The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>","title":"First Person: Voices from 1900-1914 (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/production\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1602467559296-8997d734fd2e3.jpg","guid":"9073fdad-583a-4e3e-af3a-e2db772eb805","publish_date":"2024-12-30T20:30:00+00:00","duration":"57:48"},{"id":"podcast-track-7","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/Van-Goghs-Early-Years-from-the-archive-e1rpe41","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO4982125811.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 12\/7\/22: 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\u2014and after years of personal and professional failures\u2014that he hit bottom \u2026 and suddenly realized he was an artist.\nIn the first half of the episode, I read from Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith\u2019s biography, \u2060\u2060Van Gogh: The Life\u2060\u2060. 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 \u2060\u2060found online here\u2060\u2060.\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 12\/7\/22:<\/strong> 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\u2014and after years of personal and professional failures\u2014that he hit bottom \u2026 and suddenly realized he was an artist.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of the episode, I read from Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith\u2019s biography, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Van-Gogh-Life-Steven-Naifeh\/dp\/0375758976\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XXH5IODNOL0X&keywords=naifeh+van+gogh&qid=1670352216&sprefix=naifeh+vangogh%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060\u2060<strong>Van Gogh: The Life<\/strong>\u2060\u2060<\/a>. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vggallery.com\/letters\/to_theo_early.htm\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060\u2060<strong>found online here<\/strong>\u2060\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>","title":"Van Gogh's Early Years (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/production\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1602467559296-8997d734fd2e3.jpg","guid":"631c2691-482a-47ae-8a37-d01c0b398ef7","publish_date":"2024-12-23T20:50:00+00:00","duration":"53:29"},{"id":"podcast-track-8","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/William-Blake-new-episode-e2s3sp4","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO3332061898.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 12\/9\/24: Tonight's episode gathers together all of the readings I've done on this podcast from the poet William Blake (1757-1827). All of these poems can be found online at The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake:\n\n Blake & His Animals: One passage from\u00a0Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and two from\u00a0Milton. I hope that plucking these three excerpts from his longer work can suggest how varied\u2014not just how prophetic and opaque, but simply beautiful\u2014so much of his poetry can be. (From the episode Poetry Friday)\n An excerpt from his long poem\u00a0Milton. (From the episode Visionary Poems)\n Another excerpt from Milton, where Blake's personal mythology is given free reign over the city of London. (From the episode Cities Under Siege) \u00a0\n\nListeners will forgive me for providing an episode that isn't quite brand new. But in the two months since I tentatively ended this podcast, I've seen that a way forward could be to bring out new episodes every few months. My thanks to those listeners who have responded positively to this idea.\nPlease continue to keep your subscription to the podcast, to share it with others, and leave reviews wherever you listen.\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 12\/9\/24: <\/strong>Tonight's episode gathers together all of the readings I've done on this podcast from the poet <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Blake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">William Blake<\/a> (1757-1827). All of these poems can be found online at <a href=\"https:\/\/erdman.blakearchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n <li>Blake & His Animals: One passage from\u00a0Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and two from\u00a0Milton. I hope that plucking these three excerpts from his longer work can suggest how varied\u2014not just how prophetic and opaque, but simply beautiful\u2014so much of his poetry can be. (From the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2OXrupDEMdvCv1IWXUJMu8?si=_iD-xjPUQhGdN5GJkfaBOQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Poetry Friday<\/a>)<\/li>\n <li>An excerpt from his long poem\u00a0<strong>Milton<\/strong>. (From the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7bHjSlATLoSuO3lzGVtneb?si=9OdCaTHgQYifH8BDc7hV1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Visionary Poems<\/a>)<\/li>\n <li>Another excerpt from <strong>Milton<\/strong>, where Blake's personal mythology is given free reign over the city of London. (From the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/74uHBzQkwDcAoDO9kF3n6g?si=Vl4t2KqvQIGqF4UxbzLFAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Cities Under Siege<\/a>) \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Listeners will forgive me for providing an episode that isn't quite brand new. But in the two months since I tentatively ended this podcast, I've seen that a way forward could be to bring out new episodes every few months. My thanks to those listeners who have responded positively to this idea.<\/p>\n<p>Please continue to keep your subscription to the podcast, to share it with others, and leave reviews wherever you listen.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>","title":"William Blake (new episode)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/staging\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1701372572215-b9b7bd3615585.jpg","guid":"3cb2da94-5eb8-49d6-8311-880cebb93cf6","publish_date":"2024-12-09T18:02:02+00:00","duration":"31:23"},{"id":"podcast-track-9","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/John-Keats-The-poet-has-no-identity-from-the-archive-e10b8da","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO5293328620.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 5\/5\/21: Tonight, I read part of John Keats's \u2060famous\u2060 \u2060letter\u2060 of October 27, 1818, where he talks about the poet and the poetic character. He asks the questions: how much of a poet's life is given up by their focus on poetry, by their people-watching and -listening, by their lack of social skills? How much of their lives are left over when they become so consumed (whether attracted or repelled) with the lives and words of others?\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 5\/5\/21: <\/strong>Tonight, I read part of John Keats's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-keats.com\/briefe\/271018.htm\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>famous<\/strong>\u2060<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/keatslettersproject.com\/letters\/letter-99-to-richard-woodhouse-27-october-1818\/\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060<strong>letter<\/strong>\u2060<\/a> of October 27, 1818, where he talks about the poet and the poetic character. He asks the questions: how much of a poet's life is given up by their focus on poetry, by their people-watching and -listening, by their lack of social skills? How much of their lives are left over when they become so consumed (whether attracted or repelled) with the lives and words of others?<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/><\/p>","title":"John Keats: \"The poet has no identity\" (from the archive)","image":"https:\/\/d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net\/production\/podcast_uploaded_nologo\/9720423\/9720423-1602467559296-8997d734fd2e3.jpg","guid":"73be4f4d-ab87-4dc9-8df9-6a8d5e0913cc","publish_date":"2024-12-02T19:30:00+00:00","duration":"27:32"},{"id":"podcast-track-10","link":"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/episodes\/The-Great-Myths-2-Gilgamesh--Enkidu---the-Underworld-from-the-archive-eocvc9","src":"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/APO6000140702.mp3","type":"audio\/mpeg","description":"An episode from 12\/30\/20: In this second episode on Mesopotamian myth, we return to the story of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh and Enkidu's destructive adventures lead directly to the latter's death, and here I read Enkidu\u2019s deathbed speech, and the dream he has of the Underworld. The translations I read from are by\u00a0\u2060Andrew George\u2060\u00a0and\u00a0N. K. Sandars.\nOther episodes on Mesopotamian myth\u00a0can be found here.\nYou can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0here, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0Notes from the Grid,\u00a0To the House of the Sun,\u00a0The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and\u00a0Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0S4N Pocket Poems\u00a0series. Email me at\u00a0\u00a0humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.","description_html":"<p><strong>An episode from 12\/30\/20:<\/strong> In this second episode on Mesopotamian myth, we return to the story of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh and Enkidu's destructive adventures lead directly to the latter's death, and here I read Enkidu\u2019s deathbed speech, and the dream he has of the Underworld. The translations I read from are by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics\/dp\/0140449191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">\u2060Andrew George\u2060<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Epic-Gilgamesh\/dp\/014044100X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">N. K. Sandars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other episodes on Mesopotamian myth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/7e3cJfFyltNt6PukNchNb4\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Human Voices Wake Us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/humanvoiceswakeus\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, or by ordering any of my books:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Notes-Grid-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0BRZ4J8X2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEYEW1BXXQMU&keywords=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid&qid=1674612199&sprefix=tim+miller+notes+from+the+grid%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">Notes from the Grid<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Sun-Tim-Miller\/dp\/0979870747\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BEZS8YCB3S27&keywords=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun&qid=1674611985&sprefix=to+miller+to+the+house+of+the+sun%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">To the House of the Sun<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lonely-Young-Old\/dp\/1938349792\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7C9ELCRYWSG&keywords=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old&qid=1674612086&sprefix=tim+miller+lonely+young+lonely+old%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Antler-Stone-Tim-Miller\/dp\/B0DLR4845Y\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RYHC0AQUMU0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ejH5kOq6oy1IzIkp14IOHGE0uJdJz9JBDOAxWYt0znvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.nX3ybC1Q_PaXeLWCFOGMxkhLWcDonxuaPEudNfX9FB8&dib_tag=se&keywords=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone&qid=1732560424&sprefix=tim+miller+bone+antler+stone%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bone Antler Stone<\/a>. I've also edited a handful of books in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=s4n+pocket+poems&crid=ZIYS31DL6T50&sprefix=s4n+pocke%2Caps%2C270&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"ugc noopener noreferrer\">S4N Pocket Poems<\/a>\u00a0series. 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