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February 15, 2017
 

At the Metropolitan Museum

 
Matthew Siegel
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About This Poem

 

“This poem is about facing a felt experience that the conscious mind resists while the unconscious demands further inquiry. The mother in the poem is both an obstacle and a path to a greater presence of mind. The challenge is getting the consciousness in line with the project of feeling what a given moment asks of us so we can uncover its lessons.”
—Matthew Siegel

 

Matthew Siegel is the author of Blood Work (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015). He teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and lives in San Francisco, California.

 

Photo credit: Kari Orvik

 

Poetry by Siegel

 

Blood Work

(Univesity of Wisconsin Press, 2015) 

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