Maggie Smith on the mutual reflection of poetry
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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Is America a Really Dangerous Place?
"I'm a human being living in this place and seeing these things happen around me," she says. "We've kind of lost the luxury of looking away, because it's always been a an unsafe place for plenty of reasons." The writer has never written so directly about what people might call political issues but i don't actually see them as political,. I dot see them as sort of flake. It's wonderful. And it's got some of your customary refusal to look away from the dark parts of life.
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