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...while the Soviets refused to acknowledge the genocide on their soil, the massacre was a terrifying addition to the history of the Holocaust as recognized by the West. In 1961, Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote a poem to memorialize those who died at Babi Yar. Family members of the victims kept their pictures, and last week they were finally able to mourn at the grave of their relatives...
...work is an exception to this omission. His Travelling at Mount Tianhua, a landscape that resembles a Lan Meng or a Lan Yin, is embedded with a reflective political statement, expressed in the inscription. Jisheng, exiled for political dissidence, has inscribed his lonely, cloudy seascape with a sad, romantic poem, translated as follows...
...1950s, he said, "The impression one got was 'When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you." In the 60s and 70s, in contrast, "We were not sure that we could teach the students anything-and I am reminded of the title of an Ogden Nash poem, Don't Ask Dad-He Won't Know...
ALORS: Une examination of the above work reveals some important culturally subversive tendencies; yes, if we are ever to establish equality in this society. . . No, the above poem reveals nothing--or does it? Certainly, the work undermines the concept of authorship itself--perhaps the most important literary revolution of which we can concieve...
...evidence at all in the text for this assumption, we must assume--to do otherwise would be empirical, thus logical, thus reductive, thus sexist--but never mind...) that this "Charles" is a monarch--even a British, white, Anglo-Saxon king--we are compelled to conclude that the above poem is yet another reprehensible example of sexism enshrined in the power of our fascist discourse. We must leave this discourse--abandon it--quit--non-logical...