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Poetry as religion
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Silence After the Machado Poems
"I'm a came loose scholar. So I'm here for embracing the absurdity," he says. "The first thing that you learn from poems always is the reminder that there's another human being out there ... trying to say something true." The poem, unlike prose, doesn't end on truth: It'll throw some truth up and then have a turn that tries something else or try a different kind of truth. And so he is saying we are travelers. There is no path, which means there is no other path".
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