Poetry about Aging: Marilyn McEntyre and Guy Micco

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Mar 31, 2022 · 42m

In her essay "Why Read a Poem in a Time Like This?", Marilyn McEntyre writes:

All of us need it. We need it because good poems do something prose can't do. They invite and enable us to notice the precarious fissures in what we think is solid ground. They direct us toward the light at the edge of things — the horizon, the fragment of dream before dawn, the feeling that's hard to name, and can only be accurately captured by metaphor. They take us to the edge of "what can't be said," and ambush us into feeling before we think, so that we can't simply and complacently "believe everything we…