Here’s the latest installment of “How to Build a Life,” a column published every Thursday in which Arthur C. Brooks tackles questions of meaning and happiness. Enjoy.
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Introducing The Singing Word, a hardcover anthology of America’s best poets—including Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, Ada Limón, and many more—on a complicated, beautiful, and ever-evolving nation.