Poems for Company - April 27, 2026

April 27, 2026 00:29:00
Poems for Company - April 27, 2026
Poems for Company
Poems for Company - April 27, 2026

Apr 27 2026 | 00:29:00

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Show Notes

“Wake Up: Modern Aubades”: Traditionally, aubades are lyrics announcing the arrival of dawn all too soon for lovers who want the night to be prolonged.  The twentieth-century poems featured here take some liberties with that tradition.  After an excerpt from John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” (1633), Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, “Aubade,” from Pharaoh’s Daughter (Wake Forest U. Press, 1993; Pharaoh’s Daughter by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill | WFU Press ).  Philip Larkin, “Aubade,” from Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001). The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.

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