Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is There a Way Forward?
i worry that still, that is such a tender thing, you know, those stories that are being brought out into the world that have drama at their root. I think another thing that scares us is rage. Those who have been harmed, one response is shame. That's where they turn the rage in on the self. We don't have a solution to our passions. And anger is one of those they won't go away. i guess this is what i would say lyric poetry does, is we have the effort on the part of poets to both articulate their passion and a modulate it into some kind of coherence. If we can find the poems and songs that seem to show a...
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