12/3/2023 0 Comments The red prayer book![]() On a recent night, lying wakeful in the wee hours, I turned to Jane Hirshfield to do the insomnia-charming honors. With its rhythms, images, and connections that don’t always depend on logic or linear thought, poetry offers a landscape that often lies closer to the dreaming world than to the waking one. Rather, there’s something about it that beckons my brain to step off its madly spinning hamster wheel and burrow down for the night. ![]() ( “Sleeping with Killian”) It’s not that I find poetry so dull that it bores me to sleep. Richardson ◊The Painted Prayerbook◊ĭuring Advent I wrote about how sometimes, when insomnia comes to visit, I’ll try to charm it with a volume of poetry.
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