Anne Waldman (2/7): Communal Needs

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Anne Waldman gives an oral history, a glimpse into her personal archive that has shaped her artistic and activist life. She outlines a politics that imagines a new way of being together that might come from the suspension of everyday living this pandemic has brought upon us. Anne speaks of our planetary interconnectivity as a model for systemic change and spiritual awakening. She presents a politics and thinking that spans from her recollections of a working class upbringing to the dharma to a powerful poetics that reveals planet-eviscerating corruption as well as the sacred life of a manatee; these potent narratives give us footholds toward brightness in a dark time.

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