Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.