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    Default Amanda Gorman: The Language of Bridges

    Be Inspired. Charismatic and chiastic, exquisite and liquid, the way words seem flat before they melt into rhyme, run forwad, retreat and return to a theme or a word. A star is born.





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    Default Re: Amanda Gorman: The Language of Bridges

    Allow me to offer you this extract from an elegy, with it's nod to Akhmatova, so cogent in these coagulant days.

    "March shuddered into a year,
    Sloshing with millions of lonely,
    An overcrowded solitude.
    We pray there will never be such a
    Precise & peopled hurt as this.
    ...
    We want to find who made us
    A Slaughterhouse,
    A rhetoric that works in red.
    We teach children
    Leave a mark on the world.
    What leads a man to shoot up
    Souls but the desire to mark

    Up the globe?
    To scar it & thus make it his.
    His intention to be remembered.
    Even if for a ragged wreckage.
    Kids, unmark this place.
    Leave it nothing
    Like the one we left behind.
    ...
    We find the rhetoric of reunion
    By letting love reclaim our tongues"

    Amanda Gorman, 'Requiem' from
    Call Us What We Carry (2021)


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    Default Re: Amanda Gorman: The Language of Bridges

    Sad, pathetic ignorance. But what of the parents with contrary views?

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...florida-school


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    Default Re: Amanda Gorman: The Language of Bridges

    Quote Originally Posted by Stavros View Post
    Sad, pathetic ignorance. But what of the parents with contrary views?

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...florida-school
    I'm waiting for parents on the left to start challenging books with a right-wing slant. It'll be interesting to see how the state responds to that. It would be easy to challenge books related to the Confederacy and fiction by Ayn Rand.


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    Default Re: Amanda Gorman: The Language of Bridges

    And the person who provoked the ban - just another concerned Mom?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2346447.html


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    Default Re: Amanda Gorman: The Language of Bridges

    Quote Originally Posted by Stavros View Post
    Allow me to offer you this extract from an elegy, with it's nod to Akhmatova, so cogent in these coagulant days.

    "March shuddered into a year,
    Sloshing with millions of lonely,
    An overcrowded solitude.
    We pray there will never be such a
    Precise & peopled hurt as this.
    ...
    We want to find who made us
    A Slaughterhouse,
    A rhetoric that works in red.
    We teach children
    Leave a mark on the world.
    What leads a man to shoot up
    Souls but the desire to mark

    Up the globe?
    To scar it & thus make it his.
    His intention to be remembered.
    Even if for a ragged wreckage.
    Kids, unmark this place.
    Leave it nothing
    Like the one we left behind.
    ...
    We find the rhetoric of reunion
    By letting love reclaim our tongues"

    Amanda Gorman, 'Requiem' from
    Call Us What We Carry (2021)
    The poem is very uplifting and inspiring. And there is absolutely nothing offensive about it.


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    Default Re: Amanda Gorman: The Language of Bridges

    Quote Originally Posted by Stavros View Post
    And the person who provoked the ban - just another concerned Mom?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2346447.html
    No not at all. It is fear and grievance.


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