Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
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Poet and teaching artist Gabrielle Octavia Rucker sits down with Commonplace producer V Conaty in Rachel's home in Washington Heights. They discuss Gabrielle's debut collection Dereliction, published last year by The Song Cave. The conversation wanders to being a self-taught writer, growing up, working odd jobs and then working for oneself, gnostic gospels, memes, the role of poetry in society, the end of capitalism, whether humanity should survive beyond our lifetimes, reanimating dodos, the politics of representation, and selling writing.
BOOKS & SELECTED WORK BY GABRIELLE OCTAVIA RUCKER
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The Warman Project
Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics
Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Growth
Simon L. Lewis & Mark Maslin, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
Chanel Adams, "The Right to Rest in Peace"
Ed Roberson, "Q, or the night traffic symbols"
Edgar Garcia, Boundary Loot
Augusta Savage, "Satyr"
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