Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
A former Poet Laureate makes the case that attention to language is a civic capacity, written out of years taking poems into small towns and prisons.
The former US Poet Laureate on what poems can do in frightening times, part anthology and part argument that attention to language is a civic capacity rather than a refuge from one. Written out of her years taking poetry into small towns and prisons, and anchored in the claim that the opposite of love is fear.
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Maria Popova
In Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (public library), poet extraordinaire and former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith offers what is essentially a field guide to loving life more, anchored in the recognition that “the opposite of love is not hatred or rancor but fear”
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