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Episode 165 - Punch fascists
PoemTalk at the Writers House
English - October 18, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsBooks Arts writers write writing poetry university pennsylvania philadelphia literary literature readings Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today, we talk about a poem by Stephen Collis that appeared in his book, A History of the Theories of Rain, published by Talonbooks in Vancouver in 2021. The poem is titled “Yes I Do Want to Punch” — and perhaps should be called “Yes I Do Want to Punch / fascists in the face,” proceeding to its key first line. The eco-poetic turn — an urgent one, although it can also be read as casual, even patient — from the power of a counter-violent radical reaction to a sweet comic catalogue of warblers occurs right at the beginning of the poem. One has no time to get one’s readerly bearings.