{"id":4307,"date":"2023-09-27T02:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/non-speaking-autistic-poet-hannah-emersons-extraordinary-poem-about-how-to-be-reborn-each-day-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T02:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:23:05","slug":"non-speaking-autistic-poet-hannah-emersons-extraordinary-poem-about-how-to-be-reborn-each-day-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/non-speaking-autistic-poet-hannah-emersons-extraordinary-poem-about-how-to-be-reborn-each-day-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Speaking Autistic Poet Hannah Emerson\u2019s Extraordinary Poem About How to Be Reborn Each Day \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient Greek scientific sect of the Pythagoreans placed at the center of the universe a ball of fire. It was not hell but the heart of creation. Hell, Milton told us centuries and civilizations later, is something else, somewhere else: \u201cThe mind is its own place,\u201d he wrote in Paradise Lost<\/em><\/a>, \u201cand in it self can make a Heav\u2019n of Hell, a Hell of Heav\u2019n.\u201d <\/p>\n

Grief and despair, heartache and humiliation, rage and regret \u2014 this is the hellfire of the mind, hot as a nova, all-consuming as a black hole. And yet, if are courageous enough and awake enough to walk through it, in it we are annealed, forged stronger, reborn. <\/p>\n

That is what the non-speaking autistic poet Hannah Emerson<\/strong> celebrates in her shamanic poem \u201cCenter of the Universe,\u201d found in her extraordinary collection The Kissing of Kissing<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>), song of the mind electric, great bellowing yes to life.<\/p>\n