Poetry Everywhere: "For What Binds Us" by Jane Hirshfield

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Uploaded by on Mar 26, 2009

Jane Hirshfield reads her poem "For What Binds Us." Part of the Poetry Everywhere project airing on public television. Produced by David Grubin Productions and WGBH Boston, in association with the Poetry Foundation. Filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/.

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  • Its not about human connections at all really its about acceptance, accepting the past for all its faults without giving that very same past the power to control you or hinder your future progress, and the last part is about how that painful future, if seen in the right way, can actually make you stronger than ever before

  • @ch3952

    Bite thy tongue. That's Garrison Keeler.

    Prairie Home companion creator.

  • Whoever the narrator is, needs to find another job.

  • a very solid poem about human connections.

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