Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty

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In this episode, Commonplace Producer, writer, and editor Valentine Conaty speaks to poet Cody-Rose Clevidence. The two discuss attention, collective movements of feeling, media consumption, connectedness, favorite memes, loneliness, the human yearning for divinity, reclaiming God for depressed queers, being a good family member, science-y books, and reading widely as a poet.

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Books by Cody-Rose Clevidence

• Aux Arc / Trypt Ich: Poppycock & Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark Trees (Nightboat Books, 2021)

• Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021)

• FLUNG THRONE (Ahsata Press, 2018)

• BEAST FEAST (Ahsata Press, 2014)

Selected chapbooks

• DEARTH & Gods Green Mirth (Fonograph, 2022)

• “BEHOLD A MAN!” (Auric Press, 2020)

• Perverse, All Monstrous (Nion Editions, 2017)

Also Referenced

• Golden spike

• Michel de Montaigne

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

• Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

• Waves Breaking with Avren Keating

• Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

• Fall of Civilizations

• Contrapoints, “Envy”

• Sylvia Plath

• Robert Sapolsky, Stanford Lectures

• Jaak Panksepp, The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Alan Felsenthal

• Douglas Kearney

• Bagley Wright Lecture Series

• Carl Sagan

• Emile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life

• Book of Revelation

• Neopaganism 

• Quaker meeting

• Toni Morrison

• Linda Stone, Kinship & Gender: An Introduction

• Bruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality & Natural Diversity

• Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (An Inquiry Into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations)

• Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

• Jean Giorno, Joy of Man’s Desiring

• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

• Robin Blaser

• Derek Walcott

• Wallace Stevens

• Kamau Brathwaite
  

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