Couplet 001 - Vowing to Witness with Dulce Maria Loynaz, Molly Brodak and Clara Zornado - Free Audiobook

Couplet is a podcast about sharing poems with the people you love. In each episode, a guest and I talk about a poet we have picked. We’ll read a couple of poems from each and reflect about what their work means for us.

In this episode, Clara Zornado and I read the poetry of Dulce Maria Loynaz and Molly Brodak to try and find out what is the point of witnessing the moment.

Clara Zornado meticulously floats between poet and performer, giving brevity to the existence of emotion. Their work is notoriously personal and devastating when it is obscured by finding the outside meanings but embraces a tenderness of being. They make music as Lady Queen Paradise, and would like you to find a copy of the Criterion Collection Moonstruck and listen to the audio commentary from Cher.

A full annotated Transcript is available at: bit.ly/3jTQ1uG

Dulce Maria Loynaz:

- "Archangel Saint Michael" is translated by James O'Connor and pulled from his book Against Heaven (Carcanet Press 2007)

- "Digression" is translated by Judith Kerman and pulled from her book A Woman in Her Garden (White Pine Press 2002)

Molly Brodak:

- The Cipher (Hyperallergic 2017)

- Post Divide (Two Serious Ladies 2016)

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