🧩 Philosophy 1d ago · Maria Popova

Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave

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I spent the summer using the fantastic binomial technique developed by Gianni Rodari — the beloved Italian writer whose stories lit up my Bulgarian childhood — as a creative prompt for poetry, part of the larger binomial two people co-create when their worlds touch each other in a meaningful way. Each week I’d be given two unrelated words and tasked with twining them into a poem.
Summers end. Worlds tilt away from each other, drift apart, resume their orbit, transformed. This

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