Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEARS AGO, Jonathan Kozol '58, Harvard Graduate and Rhodes Scholar, got a job teaching black fourth graders in the then segregated Boston public school system and was fired for having his class read a poem by Langston Hughes. The poem, he was informed, was not on the approved reading list, and the school department was not of a mind to allow teachers to determine what was to pass for education...
...would keep the scholars guessing until doomsday. Doomsday might be a little sooner than Joyce thought, although I doubt whether, after the Revelation, even the God Joyce thought was the shout of young boys in the playing-field will be able to make much sense out of that prose-poem...
...fascination because the Klan's political philosophy was based on the crudest sort of racial hatred and Hall himself was for his day an extreme integrationist. He read other things into the Klan, though, none of them things the Klan particularly had--rebellion, pride, struggle against oppression. In a poem in Rebellion, he wrote of the Klansmen...
...Here, really, I can only answer with some verses of my friend [Greek Resistance Leader] Alexander Panagoulis. It's a poem that says...
...bodies soaking in Yugoslavian mud baths, ends with its own soft fade: the camera moves away as the people move away, and mist from the warm mud interposes. A film by a Boston filmmaker (they try to have one in every group of shorts) based on Anne Sexton's poem "Old," has the same quality: two schoolgirls scamper down a staircase in a sepia print, and a minute later the scene repeats but the girls disappear before they reach the bottom...