On Being with Krista Tippett

So in March 2020, your book of poetry called Ledger was published by Knopf.

It was published on March 10th, that you've written the day that everything after was canceled.

And you know, somewhere you wrote, you were pondering what art, what a poem can probe.

So in March 2020, your book of poetry called Ledger was published by Knopf. It was published on March 10th, that you've written the day that everything after was canceled.

It's a very fine novel. And it's a plot essentially is takes place in Berlin. A retired university professor reads something about a protest by some African refugees. And he becomes curious about them and goes to meet them and interview them.

I'm thinking about Toni Morrison in Playing in the Dark, which is a brilliant book where she says, white people need black people to be the kind of the backdrop against which we can rise. There is no superior without inferior.

Abby's latest bestselling book, Wolf Pack, emerged from the 2018 commencement speech she gave at Barnard College, which we discuss in this show.

She's written two books, Wolfpack and Forward, a memoir.

Your book that you published, when did you publish that? In the last year? 2016. 2016 is called Forward.

She's written two books, Wolfpack and Forward, a memoir.

And he it's an incredible book about spirituality and eroticism. And he talks about animals have sex. It is the pivot. It is the instinct. It is the biology. It is the base. But we have an erotic mind and in that erotic mind, it is infinite.

I ask you, dear sir, to have patience with all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like closed rooms, like books written in a foreign language. Don't try to find the answers now.

One day the girl and the woman who don't define themselves in masculine terms, but as something in themselves, female humans, will require no other completion.

This enormous shift will transform the character of love, which is hampered today by the resistance of men, and generate a relationship from human to human, not from man to woman.

Do you think that anyone who really has him, God, could lose it like a little stone? Don't you think that one who holds him, God, could only be lost by him? Why not think rather that he is the one who is coming, moving toward us from all eternity?

Earth, isn't this what you want? To arise in us invisible? Is it not your dream to enter us so wholly there's nothing left outside us to see? What if not transformation is your deepest purpose?