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...name comes from the practice of emcee’s opening their flows with the statement, “Yo, yo, I’m about to make you my son.” The infatuated crowds termed them “son-nets.” These poems caught opponents as they became, derogatorily, “sons”. Because scribes became fatigued copying down the rhymes after 14 or so lines, son-nets never reached epic poem length...
...voices of James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman have influenced how America hears the voice of truth and authority [Jan. 26]. But there were others who set the stage. We cannot ignore the influence of Southern-raised black televangelists. And even more so, James Weldon Johnson's famous poem "The Creation," which is written in the black idiom: And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world. Paul Moore, North San Juan, Calif...
...Road, by Cormac McCarthy For me, it's a poem about the unimaginable love a man can feel for his son and a tale about American isolationism and the need to risk and extend one's hand in friendship. On top of all that, it's the greatest zombie story ever written, which is probably why it's being made into a movie with the brilliant "no ego" Viggo Mortensen...
...voices of James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman have influenced how America hears the voice of truth and authority [Jan. 26]. But there were others who set the stage. We cannot ignore the influence of Southern-raised black televangelists. And even more so, James Weldon Johnson's famous poem "The Creation," which is written in the black idiom: And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely-- I'll make me a world. Paul Moore, NORTH SAN JUAN, CALIF...
...English major, Updike became president of The Harvard Lampoon in 1953, and graduated the following year summa cum laude, before serving a fellowship at Oxford University. His first poem appeared in The New Yorker...