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Human Voices Wake Us

Human Voices Wake Us

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 The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.Human Voices Wake Us アート 文学史・文学批評
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  • First Person: Oppenheimer & the Bomb (from the archive)

    First Person: Oppenheimer & the Bomb (from the archive)
    2025/08/06
    An episode from 7/21/23: Tonight, I read a few dozen quotations from the scientists, politicians, and military figures who were instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, and in the final decision to drop it on Japan in August of 1945. The most prominent voices here are those of Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow physicists, whose dedication and excitement to develop the bomb was matched only by their misgivings (though rarely their outright regret) in the years after World War Two. While I previously dedicated four long episodes to the subject, I tried here to isolate the most vivid quotations, and the most difficult ideas, into one episode. The sources I drew on for this episode are:⁠The Making of the Atomic Bomb⁠, by Richard Rhodes⁠Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb⁠, by Richard Rhodes⁠American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer⁠, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin⁠J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds⁠, by Peter Goodchild.John Else’s documentary, The Day After Trinity, ⁠can be watched here⁠.John Bradley’s anthology of poets writing about the bomb is ⁠Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Atomic Age⁠.My poem about Robert Oppenheimer ⁠can be read here⁠.Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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    50 分
  • "The One Who Sang So Well" (new story)

    "The One Who Sang So Well" (new story)
    2025/06/16

    An episode from 6/15/25: Tonight, the podcast returns briefly for a reading of my new short story, "The One Who Sang So Well." The episode coincides with the story's publication in The Basilisk Tree—you can read it here. Many thanks to editor Bryan Helton for taking the story.

    You can support Human Voices Wake Us here, or by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the S4N Pocket Poems series. Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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    26 分
  • Shakespeare: The Life & Times

    Shakespeare: The Life & Times
    2023/10/16

    An episode from 10/16/23: Tonight, I read my long poem about William Shakespeare, and offer a commentary along the way. It is being published simultaneously at Bryan Helton’s The Basilisk Tree, and once again I give Bryan my infinite thanks.

    This will be the third long poem of mine that he has published this year to coincide with an episode of Human Voices Wake Us – the other two are on Leonardo da Vinci and Pythagoras. Please take the time to check out the rest of The Basilisk Tree, or to even submit your own poetry.

    While introducing my Shakespeare poem, I mention that it was in part inspired by an episode I did here on the (real or fictional) love life of Walt Whitman. You can listen to that episode here.

    Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.

    Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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