Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World
“The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” Muriel Rukeyser wrote in her poem “The Speed of Darkness” not long after James Baldwin told an audience of writers that “we made the world we’re living in and we have to make it over.” We make the world not with our ballots — though they do, oh they do m
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Gary Snyder emphasizes the power of storytelling in shaping our reality, echoing the sentiments of Muriel Rukeyser and James Baldwin about the transformative potential of narratives. He advocates for a collective effort to reconstruct our world through shared stories and experiences.
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