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Podcast: Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws
Episode: Episode 42: Listener's Choice with Shane Book's They are not Bits of Clockwork.
Description: This poem which I mention IS from 2014 but not from Book's Griffin nominated collection Congotronic was requested by BC poet Geoffrey Nilson. This link takes you to a proper description of Book's varied poetic and political preoccupations in this text https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9781609383077. As for me, I deal simply with this one dense contortion of an aural poem, roaming through allusiveness and assonance while the birds sing. I also remind high school teachers to please stop pulling poems apart for their "meaning." Enjoy!