Patrick Milian on Lana Del Rey and John Ashbery

This week on The Poetry Vlog, Patrick Milian from Patrick and Pop Culture discusses Lana Del Rey’s most recent album and how it connects to the work of 20th-century poet John Ashbery.
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“The One Thing That Can Save America” by John Ashbery:
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Patrick Milian is an instructor at Green River College in Auburn, Washington. He has been a David A. Robertson Fellow, William Ralph Wayland Fellow, the recipient of a grant from the Klepser Endowment, and winner of the Richard J. Dunn Teaching Award. His poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Mid-American Review, The Offing, and The Seattle Review, for which he was a Pushcart Prize nominee. Peer-reviewed essays have appeared in Joyce Studies Annual and forthcoming in Modernism/modernity. The Gleaners, a song cycle written in collaboration with composer Emerson Eads premiered by Northwest Art Song Fall 2018, and his chapbook, "Pornographies" was published the same season. He received his PhD from the University of Washington.
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[@Bea.a.taylor]

this was so fascinating, thank you for letting us be apart of your conversation

[@thepoetryvlog]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for being part of it :).

[@jeffreyrozier2943]

A Matthew Zapruder talk about John Ashberry led me here. Glad I found the KZbin channel and subscribed to the podcast as well.

[@thepoetryvlog]

Nice! Very glad this proved a helpful add-on and hoping future episodes are also helpful!

[@hyacinthony]

just getting started on this episode and DAMN! the production level has definitely leveled up! Very impressive work by the student producers and so exciting to see all that you've learned through the years building on itself. you rock!

[@gbem1]

Agreed.

[@thepoetryvlog]

They are doing incredible work to support the project's growth!

[@catherinebresner]

Brilliant episode! I noticed that "its truth is timeless" is left out of the transcription shown on screen. Are there multiple versions of this poem published?

[@thepoetryvlog]

Thanks, Catherine! We used this version of Ashbery's poem: "www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/101694/the-one-thing-that-can-save-america". I didn't know about the multiple versions, though -- super fascinating!

[@gbem1]

Doesn't appear like Patrick's Twitter account exists??

[@thepoetryvlog]

He doesn't have a twitter (unfortunately), so the handle is only for IG. Sorry for the confusion!

[@gbem1]

Irritation! I find most constraints irritating, and that often is interesting in the context of shared space, community, conversations. Themes. Agreed strategies for presenting material. Often my work flows emotionally in so many areas, so many spaces, that it's challenging to commit to one sense of it, one chiseled image of what the work should be. This is very dissonant with expectation and a simplistic understanding of inclusion. And results in irritation. :)

[@thepoetryvlog]

I feel that! A huge irritation for me is also that sense that I'm not quite fitting into -- and should -- the idea of what the work should be. Thanks for always leaving such thoughtful comments this season!