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'Laugh right in its face' – a poet reflects on her craft's defiant role in the middle of a war

  • Written by Rachel Hadas, Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
'Laugh right in its face' – a poet reflects on her craft's defiant role in the middle of a warPoetry matters: City workers in Kiev, Ukraine, protect a monument to Italian poet Dante Alighieri from shelling by the Russians.Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images

During the two years of intermittent lockdown, writers had plenty of time to write, a state of affairs that becomes clearer and clearer as books generated by, and written during, the...

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