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Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Unpredictability of People

I think also Shambor Shkatt is a poet of astonishment. She has a poem called astonishment. And Get the Boss, tell him he's got to see this for himself. So just what you're saying, paying attention to the ordinary. I hadn't thought about that. The act of repair. Which is so different. There's the needle of the threading of the needle and then this needle early on, the grafts needle slowly etches. It's predictable zigzags. They're not just zigzagged, which could be somewhat, I don't know, random or interesting. Instead, they're predictable. That idea of unpredictability of people

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