Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Existential Necessity of Lyric Poetry
LZ Granderson: We're talking here it is, lyric poetry, right? We're talking the voice of the individual self. LZ: So let's talk about that, because that's because i, i, iutn avis. They talk so beautiful. O, beautiful world. Because it's true. Language creates a world. It summons a world into being. Andand. That'sa astoundingIt's not descriptive imean prose becomes persuasive and interesting to us when it's vividly describing an inner or an outer world. But the existential necessity of poetry, lyric poetry and song, emerges from its the magical power of language to create worlds which dramatize both...
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