What Poetry Can Do
If you haven’t seen Mary Szybist’s acceptance speech at the National Book Awards ceremony, do yourself a favor. It is everything that we would want from a poet, or from anyone, honored with a big award–humble, profound, passionate, genuine. Szybist’s book is stunning, and well-deserving of the honor. It is the kind of wrestling (with big ideas, and with no easy victory) that we want, …
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