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Written by Joann Turner
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 Most responses to emotional chaos in our culture suggest armouring––they suggest that you defend yourself against events in the world through putting on armour––and that you armour yourself from inside by detaching yourself from your emotions. But poetry, lyric poetry, goes in the opposite directions. It says “open yourself, be vulnerable, let the strange angels in.” And these are strange angels – they’re not like little winged cherubim – they’re spooky! We don’t know what they’re about––they’re messengers.
––Charles Maynard
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