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EPISODE · Sep 1, 2025 · 22 MIN

S1E11: An Axe for the Frozen Sea: Chapter 11 - Tania Runyan

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In this collection of conversations, Ben Palpant, author of Letters From The Mountain, has compiled his intimate, one-on-one interviews with seventeen powerful poets of the 21st century. These conversations cover an entire range of life experience, including grief, hope, culture, the writing craft, family life, and the imagination. Each poet speaks with remarkable candor and joy. Taken together, these interviews are a powerful reminder that poetry remains an essential expression of what it means to be human. Franz Kafka famously said that "a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." And the words and thoughts contained here aim to wake up much that has become silent in each of us. They contain wisdom that may inspire, instruct, and strengthen, confronting us with the reality that words matter, that poetry matters, and that we matter. You can purchase a copy of An Axe for the Frozen Sea in the Rabbit Room Store.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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