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This week Dave and Steel are joined by their friend Katie (a female nurse!) to discuss a huge panoply of things, including Steel’s love for poetry, Katie’s college softball career, A League of Their Own, the return of the brontosaurus, Wonder Woman’s freaky creator William Moulton Marston, and the difference between anabolic and boring steroids. Katie also leads the guys through a set of rapid fire ‘lightning round’ questions, and they take listener questions about home buying, flu shots, and high school math classes, and then share some great music from Cayetana, Lucius, Blackstreet, Alice Boman, and Jason Isbell, and Steel shares two poems from the criminally underread Charles Reznikoff: “[During the Second World War …]” and “Te Deum”.
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Poetry
Three of the life-changing poets that Steel talked about:
And here’s a bunch of articles about Emily Dickinson’s “Master” letters:
- From Nicholas Rombes at the Rumpus
- An article on Dickinson’s love life from the Emily Dickinson Museum
- A review of a recent (2012) book which makes a case for identifying who Dickinson was addressing as “Master” in these letters
Expert Testimony
Katie’s Indiana University softball athlete page
A League of Their Own
Small Talk
The Brontosaurus is back! (an article by Elif Batuman in The New Yorker)
William Moulton Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, was a weird dude. Exhibits 1, 2, and 3.
More on the difference between boring steroids and anabolic steroids.
Unchained Melodies
Cayetana — Hot Dad Calendar
Lucius — Wildewoman
Blackstreet — No Diggity
Alice Boman — Lead Me
Jason Isbell — Cover Me Up
Book Wisdom
This week Steel read two poems by Charles Reznikoff: the first an untitled vignette, and the second a short poem called “Te Deum” (a Latin phrase literally translatable as ‘Thee, O God’).