An Avedon Portrait of His Uncle Inspires Poet Jake Skeets
"Diné men are often drifters drifting home from a long binge in Gallup, drifting through the whiteness taped up by white men, drifting through hours on the job, or drifting to or from backrooms. I became enamored with the image....I became obsessed with the stories brown skin tell. I became obsessed with the scars, the small variations of brown, the stains, the feel of skin, and the taste of it."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Vivek Narayanan on a Poem’s Re-Entering History
"[O]nce a poem is out in the world, there’s no way to predict the different uses, appropriations, misappropriations, readings and anti-readings to which it might be put, nor the places and times where it might emerge, uncanny, as if with fresh meaning. Bei Dao’s 'The Reply' ('Huídá,' sometimes also translated as 'Answer') is one such poem, with an intense career all its own.” |
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