Poetry and the Unknown

i much prefer to think of prayer as something that clarifies us to ourselves, clarifies our desires and our intentions. And also, i think poetry uses words to point beyond what words can kenname. In actually this year, you were writing about zadie smith on optimism and despair, a contemporary writer. You manage to get james baldwin and shakespeare in one within three sentenceswith sady smith, it's not hard. It's like some of you go through the bok and its underline ing. But, ok, all right, bu you pay attention to that, and you underline it for us, right? We'll be back next week