S1 E1: Ellen Bass Talks about Her Prose Poem "You're the Top"

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Our tagline is a phrase from Paul Éluard: "There's another world, and it's this one." Our interest and focus is on poetry, the lyric moment, and altered states.

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Our tagline is a phrase from Paul Éluard: "There's another world, and it's this one." Our interest and focus is on poetry, the lyric moment, and altered states.

Arts

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S1 E1: Ellen Bass Talks about Her Prose Poem "You're the Top"

Trance•Cast

36 minutes 8 seconds

5 months ago

S1 E1: Ellen Bass Talks about Her Prose Poem "You're the Top"

Ellen Bass and Dion O'Reilly discuss Bass's poem, "You're the Top." We discuss the unique characteristics of the prose poem--how humble and quirky it is.

We take a look at the narrator's altered state in the poem, where she is destabilized, terrified, disoriented, and ultimately exhilarated in a moment of cosmic consciousness. It's a heady ride!

We also discuss how and why Bass enters a trance state as a way to dramatize her life's experience and create her fabulous poems. She offers a few easy tips for ways to enter a creative trance and also reminds us of the joy of doing so.