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Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt
Poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation
Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts

The Arts and the “Fierce Urgency of Now”

Our supposedly universal traditions have left too much out

March 2, 2022 • by Katha Pollitt
Perl writes of the need to relate deeply to tradition and the past—he’s basically a proponent of art for art’s sake—but there are different traditions and different pasts. Maybe the problem is that our supposedly universal traditions have left out too much. ...

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