004 - Disincorporating into the Mystic with Yehuda Amichai, Nâzım Hikmet, and Xava de Cordova

Couplet · 004 - Disincorporating into the Mystic with Yehuda Amichai, Nâzım Hikmet, and Xava de Cordova

In this episode, Xava De Cordova and I read the work of Yehuda Amichai and Nâzım Hikmet to connect poets with their personal and political ideals, finding the mystical experience that lies beyond hunger.

Xava de Cordova cuts her radical vision through pointed Jewish wisdom. She explores a connection to existence to find peace with her own and the communal understanding. Much like a chicken, whose hand God has placed through to the deeper understanding and connection, her writing and art inspires and is informed from a queer Talmudic space, coming to a head with her podcast Xai, how are you? co-hosted with Michael Sokolovsky. Sign up for their patreon here!

A full, annotated transcript is available here.

Yehuda Amichai:

- God's Hand in the World (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, 2015)

- At the Swimming Pool (translated by Robert Alter in The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, 2015)

Nâzım Hikmet

- The Provacatuer (translated by Talât Sait Halman in Beyond the Walls, 2002)

- Letters from a Man in Solitary (translated by Ruth Christie in Beyond the Walls, 2002)

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