Writing Problems: Compassionate imagination
Simonides, Beckett, Celan, Różewicz, "Burnt Plastic"
Poems invite communal responses, but they are solitary acts. Finding solitude in an increasingly interconnected, insistent, and incomprehensible world requires an urgent retreat into imagination.
A failure of imagination has dire consequences: a failure of imagination brought Trumpism; a failure of imagination underlies every wrong decision in the pandem…
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