Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (A Norton Short) Holiday Seasonal And just as early humans

And just as early humans used the axe to chop down trees

By the time he was seventeen

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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (A Norton Short) Holiday Seasonal And just as early humansThe Pulitzer Prizewinning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world. Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as inaccessible, irrelevant, or intimidating. She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to love, dream, question, and engage