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Breaking: Choosing Radical Change

Submitted by alesnick on Mon, 07/30/2012 - 11:21am

education

This Balch Seminar is a writing and thinking course about breaking: the choice to make or to accept a radical change -- in living, knowing, or being.

Course Syllabus

Breaking: an Anthology

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Untitled [A house just like his mother's]
by Gregory Orr

A house just like his mother's,
But made of words.
Everything he could remember
Inside it:
Parrots and a bowl
Of peaches, and the bright rug
His grandmother wove.

Shadows also—mysteries
And secrets.
Corridors
Only ghosts patrol.
And did I mention
Strawberry jam and toast?

Did I mention
That everyone he loved
Lives there now,

In that poem
He called "My Mother’s House?"