all my movements
are prayers
i’ve got to write
before the ink & blood
run out
i’ve got to say one more thing
before i die
it’s the distance he takes that’s jarring. that the narrator only speaks from “I” a few times in actual dialogue throughout the book.
he is speaking death. the concrete in between [...]
Posts Tagged ‘poet’
a poet speaks death: mahmoud darwish’s Memory
Posted in Memory for Forgetfulness, character, chronology, flashback, poetry, setting, voice, tagged Beirut, critique, darwish, death, forgetfulness, genocide, Lebanon, life, mahmoud, memory, Palestine, poet, war on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
soldier–is jordan 4 real?
Posted in Soldier, character, chronology, class stuff, flashback, poetry, setting, voice, tagged ancestor, educator, june jordan, legend, performance, poet, poetry for the people, professor, ucberkeley on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
this was an unusual experience of a memoir (i can say this having read all of 4 memoirs in my life so far). this account of the first 8 years of june jordan’s life, contextualized by her adult self-knowledge, prove a surreal representation of who she is & what she lived for. i felt that [...]
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