975: Love after Love

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Arts, Performing Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is Love After Love by Derek Walcott. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem dramatizes the important act of rediscovering and intimately coming to love who one is, in all our complexities. It’s a famous poem that teaches devotion of self before we make ourselves available to others.”

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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by BetterHelp.
0:03.2	Do you ever feel your brain is getting in its own way?
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0:51.2	Hi, friends.
0:52.5	For the next two weeks of episodes,
0:54.9	the poet Shira Ehrlichman will be back in the host chair,
0:59.4	I'll return on October 30th.
1:01.9	I'm Major Jackson,
1:09.9	and this is the slowdown.
1:13.4	We were a long distance couple.
1:24.9	After meeting on an Amtrak train,
1:27.4	we talked on the phone each night that first month.
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