978: And the Beautiful
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Today\\u2019s poem is And the Beautiful by Paul Celan. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes\\u2026 \\u201cThe work of today\\u2019s poet, Paul Celan, was marked by genocide. This small poem by Celan reckons with what is brutally taken, what is lost. He doesn\\u2019t offer us superficial answers to endless grief. He offers only questions. And I sense, inside the questions, the immense task of facing a violent and brutal world.\\u201d
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