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Jul 17, 2020<\/p>\n
From 1981 to 1993, Jane Greer edited Plains Poetry But God\u2019s ways are unpredictable. After three decades of Greer\u2019s poetry is musical, fiery and accessible, and has Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n [2:57] Style and intended audience of Jane’s work<\/p>\n [3:53] The introductory poem to Love Like a [9:00] Structure of the collection<\/p>\n [12:22] \u201cHer Green Desire\u201d<\/p>\n [16:19] Jane’s 30-year hiatus from poetry and providential [23:13] \u201cAt the Cafe Pontalba\u201d, Jane\u2019s first poem after 30 years [25:27] Jane\u2019s beginnings as a self-taught poet and early [30:30] \u201cBecause God Wanted It\u201d, a poem about unmerited [34:28] The relationship between Jane’s spiritual life and her [38:12] Dealing with lust in \u201cSong of the Passerby\u201d and [45:08] Jane’s work founding and editing Plains Poetry [50:27] \u201cBourbon, Neat\u201d and pure play with language<\/p>\n [55:34] The immersive musicality and force of Jane\u2019s poetry<\/p>\n [57:50] \u201cFeminist Androgyne\u201d<\/p>\n [1:03:15] \u201cThe Haunting\u201d<\/p>\n [1:05:09] \u201cTwice Betrayed\u201d, a poem in Lazarus\u2019 voice<\/p>\n [1:10:49] \u201cIn the Pool at the Bourbon Orleans\u201d<\/p>\n Links<\/strong><\/p>\n Read \u201cMicha-el\u201d https:\/\/isi.org\/modern-age\/micha-el\/<\/a><\/p>\n Love Like a Conflagration<\/em> https:\/\/lambingpress.com\/product\/love-like-a-conflagration\/<\/a><\/p>\n This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like
\nJournal<\/em>, publishing poets who were reviving the traditional
\ntools of \u201crhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, painstaking
\nattention to diction\u201d which had been abandoned in favor of free
\nverse. (These poets included names you will be familiar with from
\nthe Catholic scene today, such as Anthony Esolen and Mike
\nAquilina.) Then, as they say, life happened, and Greer didn\u2019t write
\na single poem for almost thirty years.<\/p>\n
\nsilence, Greer was suddenly struck with a poem while sitting in a
\nNew Orleans caf\u00e9. This began a steady stream of output resulting in
\nher new collection, Love Like a Conflagration<\/em> (which also
\nincludes the poems from her only previous book).<\/p>\n
\nreceived high praise from many of today\u2019s foremost Catholic poets,
\nincluding past podcast guests Samuel Hazo, James Matthew Wilson,
\nAnthony Esolen and Mike Aquilina. Hazo writes: \u201cThere is not a poem
\nin this remarkable book that will leave you unchanged or be
\nforgotten \u2026 Each of these poems is as permanently current as it is
\nconsummate. [Greer] puts on the page\u00a0the passion long absent
\nfrom American poetry. I\u2019ve never read a book as poetically and
\nbeautifully frank as this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nConflagration,<\/em> \u201cMicha-el\u201d<\/p>\n
\nreturn<\/p>\n
\nof silence<\/p>\n
\ninfluences<\/p>\n
\ngrace<\/p>\n
\npoetry<\/p>\n
\n\u201cPastoral\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJournal<\/em><\/p>\n
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