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Writing Problems: Compassionate imagination

Writing Problems: Compassionate imagination

Simonides, Beckett, Celan, Różewicz, "Burnt Plastic"

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Sean Singer
Apr 17, 2021
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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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