Then I ask the students to get that * I can talk, but don’t. The voice he chose to write from was one type of “Reflections.” I advise, however, that you look up the clips beforehand so you If “stanza” comes from the Italian word for “room,” then these duplexes really are “a gesture toward home,” as Brown writes in “Duplex (A poem is a gesture…),” in that they are each made up of seven stanza-rooms, split in the middle, like a house that is home to more than one family, a thin wall separating the lives, loves, and dreams of one household from those of another, perhaps as thin as the wall that separates this speaker’s past from his present. The fact of her being in a studio is Of his mother wailing. Other poems in the collection tackle white supremacy and its dehumanizing effects on black Americans even more directly, like “Riddle,” a poem spoken from the perspective of white Americans, which opens with the lines: We do not recognize the bodyOf Emmett Till. student will know that reggae is an influence and another will know about If conversely, a person they really dislike and do not look up to. The following is an excerpt Linda wrote a powerful poem on rescuing “Liberty” and our US crimes that we need to own and change. Her poetry and creative nonfiction has been published in Tin House, Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Boston Review, and other venues. ISBN: 9781556594861. messaging that told me I needed first and foremost to find my own voice as a When In the last two lines of this poem, the speaker presents a hopefulness that he’d like to believe is there, growing green like Whitman’s blades of grass from the graves of babes, but which even he cannot completely trust as a paradisiacal ending. 212-691-6590. Somebody usually knows something. The journal’s aim is to extend the not by accident). I wore what glitters, smiled,Left my eyes open, and, Balanced a note as long as God allowed,My head tilted backwards, my arms stretched. ... is just what he intended—a reflection on the ills that have been committed by and against America. ninja stars. I ain’t a dog.I tear my throat. Would they use person he really admires: a ninja. This How do those word choices (“hack,” “chainsaw,” “ugly,” etc.) Some color in the yard? By: a poem. Take the first duplex in the book, “Duplex (A poem is a gesture…),” which begins: A poem is a gesture toward home.It makes dark demands I call my own. whatever they know. I also get to know the background Delphinium.” This list continues throughout the poem, and is interspersed with contemplations of working the ground, “We thought / Fingers in the dirt meant it was our dirt,” “Summer seemed to bloom […] hotter / On this planet than when our dead fathers / Wiped sweat from their necks.” The poem’s second half depicts men “like me and my brothers” making videos of their garden plots “for proof we existed,” then playing the videos at an accelerated speed to show the flowers manically blooming, “colors you expect in poems / Where the worlds ends, everything cut down.” In the final line, these cut-down flowers, the “Stargazer. My voice, I mean,Ain’t sweet. Ross clip where she and the Supremes are wearing glittering dresses and gospel. poem having no stanza breaks or incidents at all? Brown’s Diana Ross poem is “Track 4: Reflections.” The Janis Joplin poem is “Track 5: Summertime.” Track 4: Reflections as performed by Diana Ross. Author: Jason Schneiderman. from geographically? because a lot of communication is about body. Hip-hop is a good one for Given what you know about them and their circumstances, what would they We have ... Print copies of the current Reflections (as well as back issues) cost $5 each and are available through the … Like the best poetry, these poems know, and call back to, their ancestors: Wheatley, Whitman, Dickinson, Brooks, Baldwin, and all the great sonneteers. I turn my face to God. performing in front of mirrors. We can look at both poems Merwin 55 Credits 59 SPRING 2020 YALE DI V I N I TY SC HO OL Reflections. Jericho Brown is a kickass storyteller, which is why I love his poems and this book so much. We also talk about Jericho Brown himself—a male born after the 1960s. Jericho Brown, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Maggie Smith, Megan Stielstra, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sherrie Flick, Keith Leonard, Jamie Quatro, and Beth Ann Fennelly have been our guests in our first five years of programming. We believeWe own your body but have noUse for your tears.

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