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Marilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What Has Your Life in Poetry and Story Telling Taught You?

I think i've become more open to history, to other people's histories. When i started, i was writing about my own life and the life of my family. The last two projects i've done have taken me quite a distance away from those interests. I'm working with this specific tory of a prosperous new england town that seemed to be teaching me something about our nation. What are we doing hereah, and how is it that we have managed to persist in this blindnesses that we started out with? How are we back to our campaign? How are we able to lie to ourselves like that?...

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