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On the subject of slowness, here are two poets who hint at its virtues in poems I serendipitously stumbled upon today. Maryann Hurtt quotes e e cummings in her poem “Turtle Explains,” published in the October 2021 issue of Verse-Virtual: “nobody beautiful ever hurries.” Turtle “takes this seriously,” finds time to study “crevices / tiny… Continue reading nobody beautiful…
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Paraphrasing Yiyun Li
Slowness is a virtue. Li reminds us of this as we read #Tolstoytogether. To translate it into my own voice: our time on earth is limited, so why not take as much space as we can by slowing down? I tell myself this as I sort through poems, consider them, read them. Why rush? Read… Continue reading Paraphrasing Yiyun Li