The Dolphin’s Turn

A hijacking. A transformative veering. A meditation on the totemic and poetic significance of the dolphin through the ages. A welcome.

Further reading:

You Only Guide Me By Surprise: Poetry and the Dolphin’s Turn by Peter Sacks

The Dolphin by Robert Lowell

Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo

Delphine by Rainer Maria Rilke

Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats

The Riverman by Elizabeth Bishop

Music by Blue Dot Sessions:

Capilla

VK Mendl


A transcript of this episode is available here.

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