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Jericho Brown – Small Truths and Other Surprises

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Poetry Less Is Ain't What We Don't Stand

"My poems have to make our lives clear," he says. "They let what we don't stand ... They let that be in the room." Poems are where i go for complexity and mystery of life, she adds. 'I think you come away from that thinking, oh, well, it must be good, cause here i still am'...

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