UK-based psychotherapist Steve Wasserman sees poetry as having a kind of medicinal power, especially when memorised. We chat about using memorisation to step outside the churn of the mind, then Steve recites the very tricky Wallace Stevens poem Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour (newly memorised!).
Show notes
- Steve’s podcast Poetry Pharmacy
- Steve reading Final Soliloquy and discussing our podcast ep
- Large Red Man Reading and the ModPo close reading
- Stevens’ reading of Final Soliloquy
- 52 poems in 52 weeks
- Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim Rosen
- Wallace Stevens: Voices and Visions documentary
- Speedway & Swan by Brian Blanchfield
- Cid Corman’s It isn’t for want on ModPo
- Marianne Moore’s A Grave (‘it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing’)
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