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On Being with Krista Tippett

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Poetry Is a Form of Conversation

I think that the essence of a kind of exchange is what poetry is interested in, too. You say poetry is a form of conversation. And it seems to me that a lot of your poems are as they holding a conversation,. That aren't actually happening out there in the culture or how we're telling the story of our time. I mean, i really wonder sometimes what it would be like to live without that apprehension.

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