[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett
b'This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith\'s writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom \\u2014 in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it.\\n\\nClint Smith is best known for his 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed, but he is first and foremost a poet. He and Krista discuss how his various life chapters have been real-world laboratories for him to investigate the entanglement between language and the intelligence of the body \\u2014 and the related entanglement between history and place. His poetic sensibility has singularly opened readers to approach a generative reckoning with American history \\u2014 on whatever side of that history our ancestors stood. \\n\\nClint Smith has a way of making reckoning possible at a humanizing, softening, bodily level \\u2014 in the marrow, you might say, of our bones.'