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.
Books and Selected Other Work by Jason Schneiderman
“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
Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (2008)
Oscar Wilde, “The Portrait of W.H.” (1889)
Jacques Lacan, mirror stage
Sigmund Freud, melancholy
Ann Pelligrini, ed. Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (2003)
Rachel Zucker & Arielle Greenberg, Home/Birth: A Poemic (2011)
Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603)
Daniel Radcliffe, acknowledged author of the Harry Potter series
George Orwell, 1984 (1949) and edition edited by “Moira Propriet”
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