Waiting on the Word with Malcolm Guite
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I'll Read Your Poems Aloud and Slowly
In the introduction you say, i hope readers will feel they are joining me in a profoundly counter cultural and indeed subversive act. The one thing that would make it even more countercultura will be to dare read poems aloud and slowly. I'll do it with a poem, which was actually the poem in the book that was set for am yesterday for the seventeenth of advent antiphons. So here's how this came out as a poem for me. Out of it, osapienci, i cannot think unless i have been thought, nor can i speak unless i have being spoken. O mind behind the mind through which i seek. O light within the light by which i see
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