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Catherine Barnett Reads Wislawa Szymborska

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Human Hours

The book is anchored by these four sort of lyric essays or fragmented thinking about questions. The speaker of the poems is moving between watching a father lose his cognitive abilities and then also watching a child in a very happy way depart. So she's navigating that at the same moment that the world is in a kind of upheaval and she's also a very baffled. There's a fight between sort of logos and comedy that you know you rely on to get through life.

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