[Unedited] Gregory Orr with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Existential Necessity of Poetry
LZ Granderson: I kept thinking also, em reading, you em about em this phrase of the rabbis that words make worlds. And i feel like that that's one way to talk about how you've leaned into words as and poetry as survival and salvation. It is lyric poetry, right? We'r talking the voice of the individual self. LZ: One of the first things i discover what what made me a poet, the moment it ad happened, the moment i wrote my first terrible poem, was the discovery that language,. in poetry, is magical language. It creates a world. The existential necessity of poetry emerges from its the magical power of languageto create worlds...
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