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Reads tagged with “poetry”

The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem
The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem

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An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days

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Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine
Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine

“In our age, to have the courage for direct speech to God (for prayer) we must either not know what poems are, or forget.”

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The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the Moon to Unify the World’s First Empire
The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the Moon to Unify the World’s First Empire

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The Universe in Verse Book
The Universe in Verse Book

“We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other. At the crossing point of the two we may find a way of clarifying our experience and of sanctifying it.”

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Batter My Heart: Love, the Divine Within, and How Not to Break Your Own Heart
Batter My Heart: Love, the Divine Within, and How Not to Break Your Own Heart

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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Let the Last Thing Be Song
Let the Last Thing Be Song

“When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold.”

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Thunder, Bells, and Silence: The Eclipse that Went Extinct
Thunder, Bells, and Silence: The Eclipse that Went Extinct

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The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering
The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”

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