Marilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Marylyn nelson is a story telling poet. She gives winsome voice to forgotten people from history and from her own amily. Poetry consists of words and phrases and sentences that emerge like something coming out of water. They emerge before us, and they call up something in us, but then they turn us back into our own silence. That's why reading poetry, reading it alone, silently, takes us some place where we can't get ordinarily. To sit with her is to gain a newly spacious perspective on what that might mean....
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