The Greg Brownderville Dimension
This channel celebrates and investigates the magic of language in folklore, mysticism, music, poetry, and everyday life. Greg Brownderville—the host—is the lead singer of Beekeeper Spaceman, the creator of Fire Bones, the author of three books of poetry, Editor-in-Chief of Southwest Review, and Professor of English at SMU in Dallas.
The Greg Brownderville Dimension
GBD14: The Bead Spitter
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Greg Brownderville
This episode kicks off a special series on poetics, built around the idea of “wordhood.” I discuss a Dakota myth called "The Killing of Bead-Spitter" and why it matters to me.
