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David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Impossible to Speak in the We

I love how you knit the notes together. There is this we which you said it was impossible to put in a poem or dangerous somehow. But I think it works really well, because this is we as a society and also of this lineage of lyric or poetry. And then it allows you to say these kind of big things that I'm not sure I can get away if not peace clarity. How do I write about global warming? Let's try that.

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