Meditations with Zohar

Peter Cole: The War For The Imagination S1 E22

Nov 30, 2022

01:41:24

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Dromi - The Female Lover at the Beginning of the Song

03:58

The Dromi After Is Not Less Than King David as a Poet

02:39

The Power of 70 Tongues, I Goed Out Toward My Life

04:04

Introduction

5min

What's the Difference Between the Holy and the Profane?

2min

Is There Continuity in American Poems?

2min

What I Wanted to Discover About Medieval Hebrew Poetry

5min

Is the Medieval a Good Idea?

2min

I Love to Translate and I Love to Translate

3min

The Struggle of Translation

6min

The Arab Renaissance in the Islamic World

3min

The Best Way to Express Yourself in Style

4min

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The War for the Imagination

4min

11.

The Dromi After Is Not Less Than King David as a Poet

3min

12.

The War Is Not Against the Enemies of the Imagination

4min

13.

Is the Imagination a Threat?

4min

14.

Is There a Balance Between the Good and the Evil?

4min

15.

Is There a Tokukha in Poetry?

1min

16.

Is There a Catholicity of Sensitivity in Poetry?

5min

17.

How Do I Write Poems?

2min

18.

Dromi - The Female Lover at the Beginning of the Song

4min

19.

A Poem About Jeffrey Hartman

3min

20.

The End Is Not the End, It Continues

2min

21.

The Letters Calling Out to Each Other in the Zor

3min

22.

The Shma in the Talmud Is a Prayer of Divine Unity

4min

23.

Is the Therefore Really a Conclusion?

5min

24.

The Power of 70 Tongues, I Goed Out Toward My Life

4min

25.

The Gates Regarded, the Gates to My Life?

6min

26.

The Poetic Sensitivity of Poetry

2min

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The Responsibility of the Poet

3min

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Poetry and the Consciousness of Poems

4min

This week Zohar speaks to Peter Cole, acclaimed poet and translator, about medieval Hebrew and Arabic poetry, Yehuda Amichai, liminality, modernism, solitude and tradition, the sacred and the secular, and the war for the imagination.

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