Night Vigils & Varieties of Looking

Season 3, Ep. 36

Linda opens on a celebratory note: Getting Lit With Linda has received two separate nominations for the Canadian Podcasting Awards, one in the category of Outstanding Educational Series and another in the category of Outstanding Arts Podcast. She also includes a tribute to the late Steven Heighton (2.39), whom she remembers fondly.

Linda and Gillian Sze -- the guest for this episode -- chat about her new book, Quiet Night Think (ECW Press) and participate in “quiet thinking” and "looking," especially when there are competing demands on one's time and competing expectations. They discuss other writers, with an emphasis on Li Bai (701-7662 AD; 5.11, 16.27, 24.09) and Emily Dickinson or “Em” (12.28, 16.27, 24.11, 25.11). They also chat about the following:

• Caregiving, night vigils (19.32; 23.00)

• Origins, parenting, immigrant parents (25.35, 26.28)

• Structure and genre of the collection (20.27, 21.39)

• Learning Mandarin (7.22)

• Poetry and relationships (8.28 ; her father, 9.45, 27.03)

• the Chinese generation poem (8.39)

• Ekphrastic poetry (14.12)

• looking, and the nature of looking (cosmic, artistic; the flaneur;13.20, 17.30, 18.12)

• Cezanne (17.50)

• Fountain pens (18.38)

• Canlit and questions of gender (25.50)

• Sitting in the Moon, postpartum care (4.57, 16.45, 33.18)

• Insomnia (17.00)

  Host & Writer: Linda Morra, Co-producers: Linda Morra & Marco Timpano, Music: Raphael Krux