caring – lucy crispin, poet

the whole business, lovers to monks

Dec 17, 2020 #2020, #care, #caring, #Carruth, #Christmas, #fantasy, #Hayden Carruth, #love, #loving, #pandemic, #reality, #sentiment, #sentimentality by Lucy Crispin

Ad execs must have had a tough time working out how to sell Christmas in this year of virtual life. (At least, I hope they have.) The Christmas fantasies of merrily-laughing families or snugly-jumpered framilies aren’t going to cut it for 2020. I’d like to offer you this poem as a sort of reality check, or an advert for the only thing which really serves us in times as trying as these. Here’s Hayden Carruth’s ‘An Apology for Using the Word ‘Heart’ in Too Many Poems‘. (If you click the arrow above the poem’s title, Garrison Keillor will read it to you. The poem starts at 1:52 but the rest of Keillor’s gentle ramble around matters cultural is interesting, too.)

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tenderness

Aug 6, 2020 #care, #careful, #caring, #connection, #coronavirus, #Covid 19, #fear, #Naomi Shihab Nye, #pandemic, #shoulders, #tender, #tenderness by Lucy Crispin

One of the many weird, sad things about living during this time of pandemic is what it does to how we look on other people: suddenly everyone is threat, or potential threat, and connection is something to be avoided, not sought. I’d like to offer a little antidote to this—a reminder of connection as protection—in the shape of ‘Shoulders‘ by the deeply gifted Naomi Shihab Nye.

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the whole business, lovers to monks

tenderness