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Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Gift of the Split Self

I love that moment because I don't think people often talk. It's hard to film the feeling of departure but also letting go. That's what I come through to me and having done versions of that. The split self helps us make sense of things when you overcome both by thinking and feeling. What a wonderful poem.

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