Close Talking

Connor and Jack explore the fantastic poem "I Have Got To Stop Loving You So I Have Killed My Black Goat" by Ai. Connor and Jack talk about grotesque and profane images, and how they get us to the profound and sacred, and make a million references in order to talk about how images work, including Call Me By Your Name and Star Wars. Check out the poem below, or at this link: https://words-end-here.livejournal.com/13839.html Read more about Ai here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ai Read the referenced article by Anna Journey here: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Earn+the+Vomit%3A+employing+the+Grotesque+in+contemporary+Poetry.-a0380527469 Read the referenced "essay" by Charles Simic here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/narrative-image-correspondence Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry