Tuesday, November 21, 2006

News at Eleven: There's actually an odd correlation

between these ideas: poetry is either inadequate, even immoral, in the face of human suffering, or it's unprofitable, hence useless. Either way, poets are advised to hang our heads or fold our tents. Yet in fact, throughout the world, transfusions of poetic language can and do quite literally keep bodies and souls together--and more.

from The Guardian: Legislators of the world

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