is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in. In this episode, Mitzi talks to Ada Limón about the new collection she edited, .
I felt throughout the collection the idea of eternity, in the sense that our life here might be ephemeral, but our bodies will become food for the earth, and the hands that planted a tree long ago are still part of us now. Yeah, I feel like that’s very true. And I feel like there’s a level in which, without planning it, and without knowing it, I think time is very present in this book; time, and the fact that time and simultaneity are happening all at once, right? And that feels very true, history is present in this book.
The future is present in this book. What we think of as a linear process, is not linear in this book. And as someone, as a poet who often laughs that time doesn’t exist in my own head, it feels very true to honor that here.
That there is a sense of ongoingness, of all things, of both trouble and of peace, and that’s happening in this book. I think when you think about like geologic time, and this can go both ways politically, there are people who think we might really trash this.
