Episode 128: Anahid Nersessian

Anahid Nersessian is a professor and critic based in Los Angeles, CA. In her latest book, Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse, Anahid takes the reader through close readings of John Keats’s six Great Odes, providing cultural context and explicating their themes of sexual violence, melancholy, and the seductiveness of beauty. More than that, though, the book is, itself, a love story. In our conversation, Anahid and I talked about how and why Keats’s Odes still resonate with readers today, how personal narrative entered these essays, and how it functions in them. Then in the second segment, we talked about experimental critical writing. Subscribe:

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Show Notes:

• Anahid Nersessian
• Purchase Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse: Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
• Anahid Nersessian - Utopia Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment
• Anahid Nersessian - The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life
• Anahid Nersessian - “Catastrophic Desires”
• William Shakespeare - “Sonnet 73”
• Dorothy Van Ghent - Keats: The Myth of the Hero
• Danez Smith
• Alexander Pope - “The Rape of the Lock”
• Walter Jackson Bate - John Keats
• William Wordsworth - “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
• Ingrid Sischy - “Good Intentions”
• Peterloo Massacre
• Los Angeles Review of Books - “Of Poets and Critics: A Conversation Between Anahid Nersessian and Michael Robbins”
• Alexander Chee
• Anahid Nersessian in conversation with Zoe Kazan
• Helen Vendler - The Odes of John Keats
• Wendy’s Subway
• Renee Gladman
• John Coltrane - “Olé”
• Rachel Pollack
• Penny Arcade - “Parabolic”
• Heather K. Love
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• Rosie Stockton - Pumpjack
• Rosie Stockton - Permanent Volta

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo