Against Breaking
On the Power of Poetry
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In 'Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry,' Ada Limón expands a Library of Congress lecture into a meditation on how poetry can restore clarity and community when language and reality feel unstable.
Combining personal narrative, cultural critique, and literary history, Limón argues for poetry as a secular sacred space accessible to all.
The book explores how poets converse across centuries and how private acts of writing can have public, healing effects.
Limón draws on her experience as U.S.
Poet Laureate to illustrate initiatives that bring poetry into public life.
Overall, the work champions poetry's capacity to resist distortion and to reassemble truth.
Combining personal narrative, cultural critique, and literary history, Limón argues for poetry as a secular sacred space accessible to all.
The book explores how poets converse across centuries and how private acts of writing can have public, healing effects.
Limón draws on her experience as U.S.
Poet Laureate to illustrate initiatives that bring poetry into public life.
Overall, the work champions poetry's capacity to resist distortion and to reassemble truth.
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