Hirshfield: why we love poetry

Here she describes the arc of creating a book of poetry and argues why poetry is important. Essentially its about being permeable, a term she uses for empathy. Oops, forgot I can't get embedding to work, so here is the link: http://youtu.be/QuD9vHGx5II

"The barricade of self which is so useful to us and so necessary...is also a prison if you don’t feel your connection to everybody else and to everything else."