Leila Chatti: How Lucky to Have Lived
About this episode
Leila Chatti explores poems that reflect on the complexities of life, featuring works by notable poets and concluding with her own poem.
Leila Chatti chooses poems illuminated by a heart left often to life here on Earth. She introduces us to Linda Gregg’s fierce and incandescent honesty (“There She Is”), Lucille Clifton’s embrace of lightness amidst struggle (“sorrows”), and Jane Hirshfield’s distillation of silence and attention (“The World Loved by Moonlight”). To close, Chatti reads her poem “I went out to hear”—an affirmation for choosing a life that includes both beauty and pain. Find the full recordings of Gregg, Clifton...
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Host: Leila Chatti
Topics covered
- poetry
- life experiences
- beauty and pain
- literary analysis
- female poets
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