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"The Singularity"

Marie Howe · TED

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About

Poet Marie Howe introduces us to "ecopoetry," which asks the human ego to step aside and "let the whole living world move into the poem." She reads her poem "The Singularity," inspired by the physics that created the earth.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED Salon: Belonging
Speaker
Marie Howe
Year
2018
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Literature and writing
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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