VENICE @ CROSS-CULTURAL POETICS

Last month I had the pleasure and honor of speaking at length with Leonard Schwartz, poet, professor at Evergreen College, and host of the pathbreaking radio program Cross-Cultural Poetics, about Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice. PennSound, the online archive hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, now has these radio programs posted, ready to be downloaded or streamed at the following links:

Jennifer Scappettone discusses her book Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, taking us right up to Marinetti, from whom she draws her title (31:49):

https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/308-314/Scappettone-Jennifer_313_Cross-Cultural-Poetics_1-6-15.mp3

Jennifer Scappettone returns to discuss her book Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, picking up with Pound and taking us right up to Venice as contemporary ecological imperative (30:23):

https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/308-314/Scappettone-Jennifer_314_Cross-Cultural-Poetics_1-6-15.mp3

Many thanks to Leonard for the great conversation!