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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Episode 358 — Janaka Stucky

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Janaka Stucky is the guest. His new poetry collection, The Truth is We Are Perfect, is available now from Third Man Books. Bill Knott says "Stucky’s verse has the power of the best East European poets—some of his poems seem to be perfect, magnificent, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful, cogent, incisive phrase-maker." And Phantasmaphile says "Stucky has catapulted into the firmament of my favorite ecstatic writers alongside Diane di Prima, Bill Callahan, Hafiz, e.e. cummings, and Larkin Grimm." Monologue topics: LA Weekly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, you guys, today's episode is brought to you by Tweeted Audio. Right now, listeners of this program can get 33% off of any purchase over at tweakeda audio.com. Just go to Tweeted Audio.com and enter the offer code, other people, OTH, PPL, get 33% off of any purchase. Get yourself some earbuds, get yourself some headphones. Get yourself some cutting edge listening devices at tweakeda audio.com. These are earbuds. These are headphones.

0:26.9

You can listen to things with them. Go and get some. Oh, my God.

0:32.3

You are not alone. You have found other people.

0:38.1

You and I have a friend in common.

0:40.5

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.

0:43.4

I think it's really beautiful.

0:45.0

Jesus, dude. What, I struggle, you know?

0:47.3

It was incredible. It was like your head exploded, seeing what was really there.

0:51.7

And now here's your host, Brad Listy.

0:54.5

Just one person at just one time. Okay, everybody, here we go again. This is it. This is other people. This is someone intentional. This is actually kind of interesting. Hello, how's it going? I'm Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. How are you? What is happening with you out there? I have a very good show for you today. Johnica Stuckey is my guest.

1:12.2

He has a new poetry collection out.

1:13.6

It's called The Trin. with you out there. I have a very good show for you today.

1:15.2

Jonica Stuckey is my guest. He has a new poetry collection out. It's called The Truth Is We Are Perfect. It's available now from third man books out of Nashville, Tennessee.

1:20.2

And I had a very fascinating conversation with Jonica. I think you're going to enjoy it.

1:25.9

That's coming up in just a moment.

1:31.5

I don't have much to say.

1:33.0

It's been a slow week.

1:34.0

I've been fighting a bit of a cold, but I do want to take a moment to thank everybody

1:37.2

for the good wishes regarding the LA Weekly feature from last week.

1:41.4

For those of you who are not aware, I was named one of the 54 most fascinating people in Los Angeles

1:46.2

for the year 2015 by LA Weekly.

1:52.6

If it seems absurd to you,

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