DiscoverPoetry For AllEpisode 97: Donald Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression
Episode 97: Donald Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression

Episode 97: Donald Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression

Update: 2025-09-17
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This episode begins a three-part series on the pantoum and looks at how the repetitions work especially well for a poem that dwells incessantly in memories of the past, trying to recover, trying to move forward.



For the text of the poem, see The Poetry Foundation:



https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58080/pantoum-of-the-great-depression



For more on Donald Justice, see The Poetry Foundation:



https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/donald-justice



Copyright Credit: Donald Justice, "Pantoum of the Great Depression" from Collected Poems. Copyright © 2004 by Donald Justice. Read on our podcast by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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Episode 97: Donald Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression

Episode 97: Donald Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression

Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen