Grace Paley: On the Value of Not Understanding Everything

Like any artist, a writer is often a channel for expressing the ineffable. Thus how, in the midst of searching, can a writer consciously reach forth and grasp a wisp of truth? Grace Paley, poet, author, and activist, argues that it is in the counterintuitive embrace of "un-understanding" that realness in writing reveals itself. ...

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