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...Brittany Spears, shit, Christina Aguillera better switch me chairs, so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst and hear them argue over who she gave head to first,” and yet at the same time reject this culture, as he does in the poem annotated below. Despite being an outsider in the rap game, this poem hearkens back to the days of yore, the 1980s, with multiple references to ’80s pop culture and an era of violence and drunk driving. This work represents a true evolutionary leap in urban poetry...
...decades art was made to shock. Now people are turning to art for its ability to soothe. Especially popular in e-mails and chat rooms in recent days is W.H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939" ("The unmentionable odour of death/Offends the September night"), written as World War II began. TIME asked artists and writers what they were turning...
...unlikely to happen. Even without Mayor Khan at the helm, things have been uncomfortable for Attiya. Her work has attracted hate mail over the years; some accuse her of being a prostitute and a puppet of the West. Her brother Aslam was furious when she published her first poem as a teenager, and he forbade her to use Larik, the family name. She then adopted her father's first name, but it took her ages to feel brave enough to write again. Three years ago, she received death threats that made her consider staying at home and never writing again...
...refusing to wear a maroon sash across her chest. "When my daughter wore a dupatta (veil), I saw tears in her eyes," says Attiya. She can empathize: as a teenager, she was forced by Aslam to wear the all-enveloping burka whenever she went out in public. In a poem titled I Do Not Accept This, she writes: "Every woman knows/ That respectability is not simply/ Wearing a dupatta on your head/ Which you, Khomeini-style/ Order us to wear...
...It’ll take about a year, a year and a half, for a poem. Sometimes the very simple poems you just can’t seem to get right...