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PoetryRx: on disorientation and reorientation

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Maya C. Popa
Aug 30, 2024
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Dear Friends,

“Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you / Are not lost.” So begins David Wagoner’s glorious poem, which affirms that “Wherever you are is called Here, / And you must treat it as a powerful stranger.”

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