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Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Sound of Grief

Deborah Diggs died in 2009. Her poem "Wind blows to the doors of my heart" was published a few months after her death. The poet used wind, quilt and sound effects as metaphors for grief; she says music is part of that too. Writer: Grief intertwines our relationship to the past and the present with what we're moving into now alone.

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