Episode 333 — Dorothea Lasky

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2014

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dorothea Lasky is the guest. Her latest poetry collection, Rome, is available now from Liveright. Maggie Nelson says “Dorothea Lasky is one of the very best poets we've got. Her poems radiate weirdness and raw power; you can feel your mind grow new folds as you read them. They lay waste to milquetoast notions of poetic longing or melancholy, and instead go in for the vibrating, bloody facts of sadness, anger, desire, bare life, all returned to us more intensely, strangely, and sometimes comedically, by her words. The line is Lasky's measure, and she wields it like an axe she's been carrying through several lifetimes, that kind of wisdom. Her Rome is huge and intrepid and perfect, a total gift.” And Fanny Howe says “Rome is a trip with the wheels engaged to land at every line ending, then flipped up again. A wholly open-hearted book bringing me back to Bernadette Mayer, Maureen Owen and the suffragettes. True life.” Monologue topics: holiday gift ideas, support the show, Dorothea reads a poem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.5	Oh my God.
0:45.2	You are not alone.
0:47.5	You have found other people.
0:51.0	You and I have a friend in common.
0:53.5	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful. Jesus, did it what I struggle, you know? It was incredible. It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listing. Just one person at just one time. All right, everybody.
1:11.3	Here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is something you have decided to listen to. This is like wiretapping somebody's phone. Hello. Greetings. Season's greetings. How are you? I'm Brad Listy. I'm sitting here in Los Angeles. I'm seated comfortably in a chair. It's good to be with you. I'm grateful for you.
1:28.6	I'm thankful for your listenership.
1:30.5	Dorothy Alaska. I'm seated comfortably in a chair. It's good to be with you. I'm grateful for you.
1:28.6	I'm thankful for your listenership.
1:30.5	Dorothy Alaska is my guest.
1:32.9	Yet another reason to be thankful.
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