Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

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Penn Sounds John Ashbury Poem - Some Trees

01:46 • 3min

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What Could Be Amazing About Trees?

05:00 • 2min

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The Trees Join a Neighbor?

06:36 • 2min

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Trees Can Join Neighbors

08:09 • 2min

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Dag Hamit, Where Were You Going to Go?

10:11 • 2min

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Is It Possible, I'm Sorry to Interrupt?

12:07 • 2min

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Is There No Love in This Relationship?

13:50 • 2min

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We May Touch, Love Explained Here

15:26 • 2min

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Arrange by Chance to Meet

16:57 • 2min

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Isn't It Calmliness?

18:39 • 2min

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Queer Language

20:33 • 2min

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The Trees Don't Cruise, They Have a Route.

22:14 • 2min

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The Ontology Outside Is a Place of Possibility

23:59 • 2min

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Is There a Calmliness in Queer Desire?

26:12 • 2min

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Queer Desire - Is There a Prime?

28:07 • 2min

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I Get the Hell Out of Harvard

30:11 • 2min

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Is There a Difference Between Speech and Still Performance?

32:29 • 2min

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I Can Make This Difference Into a Beautiful Poem

34:07 • 2min

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Is There a Parallel Between These and Poetic Speech?

35:59 • 2min

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You and I - I Love That You

37:34 • 2min

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We Are Enclosed to the Hour in Our Day

39:19 • 2min

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The Last Thoughts About This Poem

40:58 • 2min

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A Canvas on Which Emerges

42:34 • 2min

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I Dare You to Hear This as a Poem?

44:15 • 1min

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Gathering Paradise

45:39 • 2min

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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vong

47:33 • 2min

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Renaissance Poetry

49:11 • 2min

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Partiressi to Break

51:27 • 2min

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The Discipline of Indirection

53:12 • 2min

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The Sacred Fagatology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

55:18 • 3min