Menu
Sign In Pricing Add Podcast
Podcast Image

Class with Mason

Sujata Bhatt: A Multicultural Poet's Journey

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

Description

find notes here: https://www.classwithmason.com/2023/10/sujata-bhatt-multicultural-poets-journey.html

Audio
Featured in this Episode
Transcription

Full Episode

0.049 - 24.878 Mason

welcome back everyone we're diving into the world of sujata pot today oh a fascinating choice i thought so yeah a poet whose work is as interesting as as her life story seems to be um we've we've got her biography right we've got some critical analysis of her work and even like a list of all of her collections and all the awards that she's won okay it's it's really a lot wow

0

28.021 - 34.6 Mason

So she's led a pretty remarkable life, it seems like. What stands out to you as particularly influential on her work?

0

35.37 - 53.684 Guest

You know, it's funny you use the word remarkable because her life does kind of defy easy categorization. Yeah. You know, she was born in India. Right. But she lived in the U.S. and Germany. And she comes from a traditional Gujarati Brahmin family with a real emphasis on oral storytelling. Oh, wow.

0

53.704 - 63.372 Guest

You know, so you've got all these different elements, the global perspective, the cultural heritage, the storytelling tradition. And it kind of all weaves together in this tapestry of her work.

0

63.7 - 66.041 Mason

I'm really curious about those storytelling traditions.

66.161 - 66.581 Guest

Yeah.

67.141 - 73.643 Mason

Because, you know, how do you think that that might have shaped her approach to poetry?

73.743 - 74.984 Guest

That's a great question.

75.104 - 75.524 Mason

Yeah.

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.