Amanda Gorman: The Language of Bridges

[Stavros]

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaZBgqfEa1E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ055ilIiN4

[Stavros]

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)

[Stavros]

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/24/amanda-gorman-poem-ban-florida-school

[Fitzcarraldo]

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/24/amanda-gorman-poem-ban-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.

[Stavros]

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

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amanda-gorman-poem-banned-proud-boys-b2346447.html

[KnightHawk 2.0]

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.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

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

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amanda-gorman-poem-banned-proud-boys-b2346447.htmlNo not at all. It is fear and grievance.

[natina]

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