Episode Three: The Kookaburras by Mary Oliver with Wendell Kimper
3/7/2024 | 26m
This one is for the procrastinators and cowards in all of our hearts as guest Wendell Kimper, Amy, and Kate discuss "The Kookaburras", a poem by Mary Oliver. The episode covers the multitudes of potential, the desire (if not always the ability) to unlock the cages of suffering, and figuring just exactly what (or who?) is a god of flowers. Annnnnd we're taking it back to Buffy. Of course.
This Episode's Guest
Wendell Kimper is a writer, academic, and aspiring cryptid with a PhD in linguistics and an unsustainable collection of special interests. He's currently working on a queer vampire novel that throws a sideways glance at structural power and Chosen One narratives.
Amy's Show Notes
What Amy’s reading: The Future, by Naomi Alderman - https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/80634e12-b420-4384-854c-18193f2e2996
What Kate is reading: The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter - https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8c5f54f3-8537-4f67-999b-e88580fa817d
The Sourdough World created by A. G. Slatter: https://www.angelaslatter.com/
Wendall’s selection: “The Kookaburras” by Mary Oliver, from the book New & Selected Poems by Mary Oliver - https://www.nationalbook.org/books/new-selected-poems/
See the poem: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/33805f_648ffa2e64bc42b585b9d4d782014901~mv2.jpg
These are kookaburras: https://www.pedestrian.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/18/yay-its-another-image-2021-01-18T155501.766.png
Clip of the Trio as gods from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7, Episode 16 - Storyteller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnYDLHUwRKc
Painting of Bacchus by Caravaggio that also reminds Kate of what a god of flowers looks like: https://web.archive.org/web/20190417235351/https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/bacchus
Learn more about Edna St. Vincent Millay: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edna-st-vincent-millay
Read more than the first line of Wild Geese by Mary Oliver, and hear the poem read by the poet: https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/09/24/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/
Request a recommendation on a selection of writing picked by Kate and Amy just for you: https://www.findinggoodbones.com/contact