Language can eclipse reality. The names we give things are useful as labels, but they also generalize and standardize till we no longer see the thing before us. Here is a horse, we think, and having identified it, we stop … Continue reading
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Our experiences and our emotions can seem so complicated and contradictory as to be impossible to express. This is why writers, such as Li-Young Lee, turn to images. In a poem which starts, “No easy thing to bear, the weight of … Continue reading