![]() ![]() So how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can’t be said? Where, really, are truth and beauty? The answer, says historian and poet Jennifer Michael Hecht in her new book, The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives, is in poetry. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live ― in kindness, justice, morality. Her new book is The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives. ![]() She earned her PhD in history from Columbia University and teaches in New York City. Her poetry books include Who Said, The Next Ancient World, and Funny. Jennifer Michael Hecht, a historian and poet, is the award-winning and bestselling author of the histories Doubt, Stay, The Happiness Myth, and The End of the Soul.
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