"When I wrote this poem, we didn't realize my mother had had a stroke, but those cardinals were telling me. I then began work on "This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart." In 2020, just before the book came out, my mother fell again. We discovered the undetected stroke from Spring 2018 in her MRI. It had been hidden in the shadows. That is the early warning signal of poetry."
Madhur Anand on "Rising Variance as an Early Warning" |
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Poet Laureate Joy Harjo on Shared Stories
"Once everything started shutting down, the Earth got a little bit of a rest. And then most of us shut down, and that takes you inside to a kind of reckoning. That’s what we’re all involved in right now—an Earth reckoning, a historical reckoning, a cultural reckoning, societal and social reckoning."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Heller on “Bandelette de Torah”
"When I first saw the bandelette in the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, in Paris’s Marais district, I immediately experienced one of those Rilkean “bursts,” for here was an object, that in its ornate yet near-transparent being, invoked so much of the social, cultural and historic struggles of the Jews which are writ large across and infuse the whole of Western culture from earliest times through the rise of Christianity and the Church fathers, on up to the Shoah." |
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