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Posts by Javeria Hasnain

Familiarizing the Abstract: Making Sculptures with Blind and Visually-Impaired People

By Javeria Hasnain | June 17, 2024

  Little else feels as good as familiarity. So when poetry defamiliarizes the familiar before refamiliarizing it, the resultant effect is close to transcendence for me. I am thinking of Robert Hass’s “Longing, we say, because desire is full / of endless distances.” We already know what longing is, as a concept, so when Hass…

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