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    Poetry Rx: When You Weep, Sorrow Comes Clean Out

    by Kaveh Akbar Nov 29, 2018 4 minutes

    In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.

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    Dear Poets,

    This year has been full of so many new experiences, in the best possible ways. It’s disorienting. How did I get to this place? How is everything so strange? Am I allowed to feel happy, to accept good things for myself? Even if it’s all so fleeting? I’m unfamiliar with the geography of joy. How might I learn to navigate this space?

    Sincerely,

    Bewildered in the Best Way

    Dear Bewildered,

    The geography of joy! What a

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