Paul Muldoon and special guests, Sparks

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

First, Sparks on Bookworm's new theme songs. Then poet Paul Muldoon (Maggot, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux) on how writing poems differs from writing song lyrics..

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.2	Boots!
0:09.0	Where would we be without boasts?
0:13.0	Where would we be without Gutenberg?
0:16.7	Even the thought of it's so absurd.
0:20.3	Where would we be without bo absurd, Where would we be without books?
0:22.6	Where would we be without books?
0:25.6	Where would we be?
0:26.6	Where would we be without good?
0:29.6	No doubt to bird.
0:30.6	It's a rhetorical question, sir,
0:33.6	but where would we be without books?
0:38.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Sloferblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:44.2	You've just heard something brand new, bookworm's new theme music, written and performed
0:49.7	by the fantastic, brilliant, thrilling rock band, Sparks.
0:53.9	I have Sparks here with me today.
0:56.6	Then I'll be talking with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon
0:59.9	about poetry and its relation to the art of the song lyric.
1:04.4	But first, I'm so excited to be talking with the legendary rockers from Sparks,
1:09.6	brothers Ron and Russell Mail.
1:11.9	Now, I'm so completely thrilled.
1:15.6	This is the dream of a lifetime.
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