Maria Popova
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931 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I didn't know because I had turned my phone off.
I just didn't want to deal with the book stuff.
And when I turned it on close to midnight, I learned.
And it was, yeah, I mean, I won't belabor it anyway.
But Emily is also the reason the universe and verse exists because we, as she was dying, we started going on these trips
poetry retreats, as you remember.
Yes, I was part of one.
Two, yeah.
And we would spend the weekend on the sort of promise of reading poetry, but really talking about the universe and Hannah Arendt and the singularity in ancient Greece, because Emily's mind was so fractal and so, I mean, combinatorial in the most beautiful, enchanting way.
And in the course of it, I started seeing how poetry and science
are these side doors to the same reality, to befriending reality.
And I started reading poetry, writing about poetry, and eventually, you know, studying with very good poets, Marie Howe and Ellen Bass, and eventually writing poetry.
So this is a poem that I wrote in the state of heartbreak, I thought.
And it's a little bit more tongue-in-cheek, begins a little more tongue-in-cheek than the rest of my poems.
But I think it's one we all need at some point in our life or the sentiment in it.
This is called Corrective for a Broken Heart.
Why all the threadbare drama, the stale catastrophism of calling it broken?
It still beats, doesn't it?
Still trembles at the sight of fog flowing through the forest like a slow dance song.
It was only dislocated, lost its locus for a while, popped out of the socket of good sense.
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