Friday Muse: Returning to a Resonant Scene

Hannah Arendt, Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Village," and art as resistance

I’ve been thinking lately about what poets and essayists can do at their best, which is to support us in having the right to our perceptions, to our meandering thoughts, our experiences, our memories and the narratives we make of them. These are not simple matters, but that is precisely the point. The arts allow us to deal in complexity, contradiction, …