Ross Gay’s “Burial” describes him using his father’s ashes as fertilizer for a plum tree, which becomes a way of freeing him to intermingle with nature.
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Ross Gay on Burial and Resurrection
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Radical Hope, Love’s Secret Discipline
Two poems for Easter on the power of love over death.
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Coming into the Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Barry’s “Peace of Wild Things” provides a vision that can help counteract what Thomas Merton identifies as the most common form of innate violence: the rush and pressure of modern life.
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