38 - Dante's Old South Radio Show (June 2022)

Dante's Old South Radio Show

June 2022 Dante’s Old South

Diane Seuss

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Winner of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

“The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,” Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss’s working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare. Like a series of cels on a filmstrip, frank: sonnets captures the magnitude of a life lived honestly, a restless search for some kind of “beauty or relief.” Seuss is at the height of her powers, devastatingly astute, austere, and—in a word—frank.

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/frank-sonnets

Robert Gwaltney

A writer of southern fiction, he is a graduate of Florida State University. He resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is an active member of the Atlanta literary community. By day, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc., Children Services, a non-profit supporting children with disabilities and other special needs. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as The Blue Mountain Review, The Signal Mountain Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. The Cicada Tree, a Somerset Finalist, is his debut novel.

https://robertlgwaltney.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Cicada-Tree-Robert-Gwaltney/dp/1952439248/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1655941395&sr=1-1

Music:

Joe Cocker: With a Little Help from My Friends: https://open.spotify.com/track/7JiHWExnegKTwVO7ssdaLO?si=b76908e0d687470c

Pixies: Where is My Mind: https://open.spotify.com/track/0KzAbK6nItSqNh8q70tb0K?si=e5e7752950104c01

Max Richter: November https://open.spotify.com/track/2NGhKPZdZk2pPZinWphTzh?si=94dcdefc91f64e41

Special Thanks Goes to:

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Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org

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The host, Clifford Brooks, The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. His chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through my website. To find them all, please reach out to him at: [e-mail]

Check out his Teachable courses on thriving with autism and creative writing as a profession here: www.brooks-sessions.teachable.com