Episode 95: Jason Schneiderman

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Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Jason Schneiderman about his newest book of poems, Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press, 2020). The two friends also discuss marriage, divorce, gay history and activism, tenderness, anger, embodiment, clickbait, the end of modernism, the useful alienation of the writing self, social media, masculinity, being Jewish, birth, how to part with books when they feel like part of you and much more.

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Books and Selected Other Work by Jason Schneiderman

• Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press, 2020)

• Primary Source (Red Hen Press, 2016)

• Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press, 2016)

• Striking Surface: Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2010)

• Sublimation Point (Four Way Books, 2004)

• “Nothingism: A Poetry Manifesto” in The American Poetry Review (April 2019)

• “How the Sonnet Turns: From a Fold to a Helix” in The American Poetry Review (June 2020)

Also Referenced

• Sarah Polley

• D.A. Powell

• Sylvia Rivera

• Andrew Sullivan

• David Brooks

• Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (2008)

• Tom Sleigh

• Walt Whitman

• Oscar Wilde, “The Portrait of W.H.” (1889)

• Anne Carson, Eros: The Bittersweet (1986)

• Jacques Lacan, mirror stage

• Sigmund Freud, melancholy

• Leo Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave" (1987)

• Andrea Dworkin and Catherine McKinnen

• Frank O'Hara

• The Hanky Code

• Emily Dickinson

• Erika Meitner

• Tilda Swinton

• Derek Jarman

• Jorie Graham

• James Galvin

• Ann Pelligrini, ed. Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (2003)

• Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905)

• Rachel Zucker & Arielle Greenberg, Home/Birth: A Poemic (2011)

• Ellen Bass

• Douglas Manuel

• Joni Mitchell

• Kiki Petrosino

• Judith Liz Herman

• Ellen Bryant Voight

• Carl Phillips

• The Little Red Riding Hood

• Russell Edson

• Wisława Szymborska

• Sylvia Plath

• Franz Kafka

• Wayne Koestenbaum

• Rachel Zucker, MOTHERs (2014)

• Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987)

• Gaeton Dugas

• Douglas Crimp

• James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (2003)

• David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (2010)

• Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face (1994)

• The New Criticism

• Jacques Derrida

• Homer, The Illiad (c. 8th Century BC)

• Unknown Author, The Somonyng of Everyman (c. 1516)

• William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603)

• Charles Darwin

• Karl Marx

• Albert Einstein

• Sigmund Freud

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Arthur Danto

• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (1997-2007)

• Daniel Radcliffe, acknowledged author of the Harry Potter series

• Gremlins (1984)

• George Orwell, 1984 (1949) and edition edited by “Moira Propriet”

• William Carlos Williams, Spring & All (1923)

• Jennifer L. Knox

• David Trinidad

• Dennis Cooper

• Paul Auster

• Jane Austen

• Michel Foucault

• USC Shoah Foundation

• George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871)

• Marie Kondo, the concept of "sparks joy"

Music by Judah Goren 

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