Between Oceans and Gold Teeth

A semi-critical poetry podcast in which Basie Cobine and Joel Watson discuss poetry from across time and space. Listen on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Soundcloud, and Twitter.

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Our newest episode! The Beauty of a Busted Fruit by Natalie Diaz. It’s almost a tender conversation. Check it out, the poem is 10/10. 

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Our newest episode! The Beauty of a Busted Fruit by Natalie Diaz. It’s almost a tender conversation. Check it out, the poem is 10/10. 

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In which Joel and Basie discuss A fisherman speaks his mind by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, translated by Hùynh Sanh Thông!

Show notes here!

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Between Oceans and Gold Teeth is a product of Accordion Productions. It is hosted by Basie Cobine and Joel Watson.

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In which Joel and Basie discuss A fisherman speaks his mind by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, translated by Hùynh Sanh Thông!

Show notes here!

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?  Visit our website, email us, reach out on tumblr, or @OceansGoldTeeth on Twitter. Subscribe if you never want to miss an episode, and please, tell your friends.

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044 - A fisherman speaks his mind Show Notes

In which Joel and Basie discuss A fisherman speaks his mind by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, translated by Hùynh Sanh Thông!

Listen here! Or wherever you prefer your podcasts. :D   

A correction - I call Henry David Thoreau's Walden; Or Life in the Woods just Into the Woods because I think living alone in a cabin is equivalent to a fairy-tale musical. As I mentioned in the podcast, I didn't read much of it at all.  

(Mostly) Proper Citation(s): 

Đình Chiểu, N. (2001). An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries. H. S. Thông (Ed., Trans.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

References, proof, mentions, recommendations, etcetera: 

English Wiki on the author

Vietnamese Wiki on the author

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Joel's research doc 

Tolkien

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In which Joel and Basie discuss “Condemning the Moongod Nanna” by Enheduanna from her longer poem “The Exaltation of Inanna,” translated by Willis and Aliki Barnstone.

Show notes here!  

Thank you!

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In which Joel and Basie discuss "Condemning the Moongod Nanna" by Enheduanna from her longer poem "The Exaltation of Inanna," translated by Willis and Aliki Barnstone.

Show notes here!  

Thank you!

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043 - Condemning the Moongod Nanna Show Notes

In which Joel and Basie discuss Condemning the Moongod Nanna by Enheduanna, translated by Willis and Aliki Barnstone. You can read the poem here, you just gotta scroll down. Read more translations of Enheduanna here. 

Just a couple of things we got wrong right off the bat - Sargon of Akkad conquered Sumeria (not just Sumer) to form the Akkadian Empire, first empire in human history. This is why he’s called Sargon of Akkad. This makes Lugalane an Akkadian citizen as well. Enheduanna would have written in the Sumerican cuniform as the Akkadians did not have a writing system of their own until their took over Sumeria. :) 

Listen to the episode here!! Or wherever you like your podcasts. 

(Mostly) Proper Citation(s): 

Barnstone, Aliki, and Willis Barnstone. A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now. New York, N.Y.: Schocken, 1992

References, proof, mentions, recommendations, etcetera: 

Enheduanna -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna

http://www.transoxiana.org/0108/roberts-enheduanna.html 

https://www.ancient.eu/Enheduanna/

http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/gods/ladies/ladyenheduanna.html 

https://archive.is/mupD       

http://www.mezzocammin.com/timeline/timeline.php?vol=timeline&iss=BCE&cat=2200&page=enheduanna

Inanna - 

https://www.ancient.eu/Inanna/

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/inanaitar/index.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna

Nanna - 

https://www.ancient.eu/Nanna/ 

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/nannasuen/

http://atkinslightquest.com/Documents/Religion/Legends-Folklore/Sumerian-and-Akkadian-Deities.htm

More of her poems -

http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/enheduanna/ninmesara.htm 

http://classicalarthistory.weebly.com/library/enheduanna-poems

http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4072.htm

Other- 

The Piltdown Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwW40Dj5Sro 

When they Tell You The Brontosaurus Never Existed

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042 - History 3 Show Notes

In which Joel and Basie discuss History 3 by Sheenagh Pugh (click to listen). Listen to History 1 and History 2 if you'd like to hear the whole set. The episode before this, Flameproof painting, is also relevant. 

(Mostly) Proper Citation(s): 

Pugh, S. (1990). Selected Poems. Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books

References, proof, mentions, recommendations, etcetera: 

The American Civil War

Pickett's Charge - Not sure Joel and I know all that much about the American Civil War. 

Bush's Mission Accomplished Speech

One death is a tragedy... 

Vietnam War 

Full Metal Jacket

The Dark Knight

War Powers Resolution - turns out Obama did send troops to Syria, just later (facepalm). 

Saving Private Ryan

The Death of Captain Waskow

People of the Lie

The Mỹ Lai Massacre 

Thresholds 

Cain and Able

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In which Joel and Basie discuss The dispatched and Flameproof painting by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn.

In this episode we do a fair bit of talking about the humanitarian crisis at the US/Mexico border. If you’re concerned, consider donating to relief funds. We donated to Save the Children. We also purchased Dreaming America, published by Settlement House Press. The book is a collection of translated poems from young people in detention centers. Sales of the book go to support legal funds for those detained in border camps.

More show notes here! 

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In which Joel and Basie discuss The dispatched and Flameproof painting by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn.

In this episode we do a fair bit of talking about the humanitarian crisis at the US/Mexico border. If you’re concerned, consider donating to relief funds. We donated to Save the Children. We also purchased Dreaming America, published by Settlement House Press. The book is a collection of translated poems from young people in detention centers. Sales of the book go to support legal funds for those detained in border camps.

More show notes here! 

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041 - Flameproof painting & The dispatched Show Notes

In which Joel and Basie discuss The dispatched and Flameproof painting  by Bertolt Brecht (listen here), translated by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn. We highly encourage you to check out the f a n t a s t i c collection that we pulled these from. Information and a link to purchase are below, embedded in the citation. 

In this episode we do a fair bit of talking about the humanitarian crisis at the US/Mexico border. If you're concerned, consider donating to relief funds. Here is a list of different places you can donate to. I donated to Save the Children. I also purchased Dreaming America, published by Settlement House Press. The book is a collection of translated poems from young people in detention centers. Sales of the book go to support legal funds for those detained in border camps. 

(Mostly) Proper Citation(s): 

Bertolt, B. (2018). The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht. D. Constantine & T. Kuhn (Eds.) (Trans.)., New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company

References, proof, mentions, recommendations, etcetera: 

About Bertolt Brecht

Twitter Thread about providing soap and toothpaste 

18 Year Old Citizen Detained at Border

Milgram Experiment 

Joe Rogan & Russell Brand

 The Demons Tormenting Untersturmführer Hans Otto Graebner.  This is from A Vaudeville of Devils: 7 Moral Tales by Robert Girardi.

It was James Ensor

Meet James Ensor - They Might Be Giants

Kontrolni punkt by David Albahari, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac (listen, if you're looking for a new literary journal to subscribe to, pick the one behind this link). 

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Our podcast will be middle aged soon :P

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038 - Herman Finley Show Notes

In which Joel and Basie discuss Herman Finley by Jericho Brown. Read the poem here.

Listen to the episode here! 

References, proof, mentions, recommendations, etcetera:

Herman Finley is Dead

Jericho Brown on Herman Finley

Herman Finley Directing

Herman Finley Memorial

Duplexes

Why Die - CGP Grey

Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever? - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Corrections and Whatnot:

What was mentioned as being called On Illness is actually called On Being Ill, written by Virginia Woolf.

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Recall midnight thirty on Friday morning, where this episode’s initial post was sogged in sleepiness and generally unenthusiastic. Promises were made, and broken. 

But now it’s mid-morning Sunday (for those keeping track) and I am finally ready to give this post its proper due. It deserves hype. For whatever reason, I felt like using the old logo. Joel and I are thinking about switching up the art for each episode, but haven’t committed yet. 

We have an awesome guest on this episode, and you can hear him read the poem in the original Chinese. We talk about birthdays, and Saddam Hussein. It’s worth listening to, really.