Sublime
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by Robert Hass, the U.S. poet laureate from 1995 to 1997, in a twelve-minute tour of the role of awe in literature and poetry at a conference in Berkeley in 2016. As he detailed this idea, he embodied literary epiphanies with whoas, our ancient sounds of recognizing the sublime.
Dacher Keltner • Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder
You belong to the world
by Carrie Fountain
as do your children, as does your husband.
It’s strange even now to understand that
you are a mother and a wife, that these gifts
were given to you and that you received them,
fond as you’ve always been of declining
invitations. You belong to the world. The hands
that put a peach tree into the earth exactly
where t
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Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
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reverenced.
Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
They remind us that we are all flitting through a lighted hall towards the great unknown,
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Women, always the women. Thank goodness for the women.