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Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language

On Being with Krista Tippett

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I'm Going to Meet You Half Way

Poetry is ancient, and it's alltes new forms. We experience enormous amounts of disorder and confusion in our daily lives. What poetry says to us is, you know what? Turn your confusion. Turn your world into words. i'm going to meet you half way. You just bring me your chaos. I'll bring you story. If you want sonnets, i'll bring you sonnets. And we're going to do that by worging a lot your crisis shine through this ordering principle....

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