Podcast: The Poetry Show: Monday Sept 25, 2017 -- Odes, Vietnam, John Ashbery

This podcast was broadcast on Enlighten Radio on Sept. 25, 2017 from the Red Caboose Studio in Bolivar, West Virginia. Podcasts are available here.

 

Playlist:

Warm UP:

 

1. Ballad of a Soldier (Russell) -- Leon Russell and Marc Benno

2. Masters of War (Dylan) -- Tim O'Brien

3. With God on Our Side (Dylan) -- K'naan

4. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner(Zevon) -- Warren Zevon (Live)

5. War of Man(Young) -- Neil Young 

6. War/No More Trouble(C. Barrett, A. Cole & B. Marley) - Playing for Change

7. Play it All Night Long (Zevon) -- Warren Zevon

8. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye -- The Clancy Brothers

9. Say It Isn't True (J. Browne) -- Jackson Browne

10. The War is Over (JJ Cale) -- Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale

Intro to the Poetry Show. Odes from Pindar

 

Pindar: Excerpts form the Victory Odes, and Olympia I

 

11. What Side? (J. Browne) -- Jackson Browne

 

Pablo Neruda  -- Ode to the Earth (Oda a la Tierra), from All The Odes, trans Margaret Sayers Peden

 

12.  The Long Way Around (J. Browne) -- Jackson Browne

 

Pablo Neruda -- Ode to the Earth II

 

Intro to Vietnam era poetry from Poetry Magazine

 

Denise Levertov: Interim

 

Denise Leverrtov: At the Justice Department November 15, 1969

 

Stephen Dobyns: Name - Burning

 

William Stafford: Walking Away an Undeclared War

 

Philip Levine:  This War

 

Gregory Corso:  America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity

 

13. Mutineer(Dylan) -- Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires

 

14.  When the Night Comes Falling --  Jeff Healy

 

John Ashbery -- Intro

 

...by and Earthquake...

 

A worldly Country

 

15. Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.