Season 4 ends with some much-needed poetic Cherapy!

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Notes:

Poets and poems we mention in this episode include:

Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry"

Rob Schlegel, "Poetry"

Sandra Lim, "Something Something Something Grand"

Margaret Walker, "Lineage"

Sylvia Plath, "The Applicant"

Diane Wakoski, "The Father of My Country"

Carolyn Forche, "Selective Service"

Mark Bibbins, "The Anxiety of Coincidence"

Corey Marks, "Broken Music"

Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"

Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day"

Louise Glück, "Anniversary"

e.e. cummings, "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond"

Cher's delivery of this rant in Witches of Eastwick is iconic.

Burlesque is a 2010 American backstage musical film written and directed by Steven Antin. It stars Cher, Christina Aguilera, Kristen Bell, Cam Gigandet, Eric Dane, Stanley Tucci, Julianne Hough, Alan Cumming, and Peter Gallagher, and features cameos from Dianna Agron and James Brolin.

Mermaids is a 1990 American family comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin, and starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Michael Schoeffling, and Christina Ricci in her film debut. Based on Patty Dann's 1986 novel of the same name, and set in 1963, its plot follows a neurotic teenage girl who moves with her wayward mother and younger sister to a small town in Massachusetts.

Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher.

The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American dark fantasy comedy film directed by George Miller from a screenplay by Michael Cristofer, based on the 1984 novel by John Updike. It stars Jack Nicholson alongside Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Veronica Cartwright.

In Season 1, Episode 117, "Cher Revises Poetry," we ended famous poems with lines from Cher movies, including the Dolly Pelliker line, "Goddamn government fucks you coming and going!"

Listen to the Green Acres theme song here.

The ladies are joined by Richie Hofmann for one hell of a Breaking Form interview!

Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.

Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Notes:

Visit Richie Hofmann's website here: https://www.richiehofmann.com/ which includes links to many of the poems Richie reads for us in the episode.

Purchase The Bronze Arms

Check out a reading Richie gave at LA's Hammer Museum in April 2022 here (~45 minutes)

Watch Bette Middler sing "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy here.

To see the clip from Absolutely Fabulous we reference in the show, go here.

For more about the recent sandals Chanel showed in their 2027 resort collection, read this article in Vogue.

Read Richie's essay remembering Louise Glück, published in CNN, here.

REduardo Corral published Guillotine with Graywolf in 2020; it was Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry and was a Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Buy it here!

Richie references the Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) poem "Whoso List to Hunt"

Carl Phillips wrote on Instagram about The Bronze Arms: "Novelistic, cinematic…It’s been more than a moment since I read a book of poems so accomplished not only poem by poem but as a book with a sensibility so clear and at the same time so layered in different shades of mystery — as if torn between withholding, craving, and demanding intimacy, all three at once…Congratulations @richiehof — I read the whole book last night, and here I am, starting all over —"

Read more about the poet Kara van de Graaf, author of Spitting Image (SIU Press, 2018) on her website here: https://www.karavandegraaf.com

Learn more about the poet Will Brewer via his website: https://www.williambrewer.net

Anne Carson's translations of Sappho are collected in her book If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho first published in 2002. It contains Greek text on facing pages, based on Eva-Maria Voigt's 1971 critical edition. Carson's translation closely follows the word-order of Sappho's Greek, and marks lacunae in the manuscripts with square brackets.