“The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.” I have always loved this line from the West Indian poet Derek Walcott. It speaks to the essential challenge that we face. We are called to hold at the same moment the bombed out villages in Gaza in one hand and the blooming pink and raspberry-colored cherry blossom in the other.…
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