"The Birth of God" by Daniel Brown

Text of poem here.

Mea culpa: Please read "tercets" for "triplets"

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-J.V. Cunningham (see my episode on him here)

-The Tribe of Ben (Jonson)

-Check out Dan's books here!

-The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets

-Accentual or Accentual-Syllabic?

-Macro-rhythmic modulation

-The soul of wit?

-My episode on Emily Dickinson

-God Is Dead!

-The Lascaux cave paintings

-Genesis 2:7

-Allegory of the Cave 101

-The cry of Sex-Birth-Grief

-Ecclesiastes

-Voltaire (who was actually not an atheist, but a deist)

-"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

-"Is Theology Poetry?" by C.S. Lewis

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List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)