New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition
A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound \u2014\xa0bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present matter of conflict in our world. In this first offering, P\xe1draig introduces the intriguing idea of poems as teachers and ponders Wis\u0142awa Szymborska\u2019s \u201cA Word on Statistics," translated by Joanna Trzeciak. This poem covers statistics of the most human kind \u2014 like the number of people in a group of 100 who think they know better, who can admire without envy, or who could do terrible things. Listen, and ask yourself: Which categories do I belong to? Which do I believe?