Tag: translation
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What Will Not Survive
Sharp as an edge that does not ask what it is cutting. whole as a thing that does not need proof to exist,thought arrives in full motion before meaning—color before shape, light before weight,not as process, not as method,but truth already formed, unwilling to be held,which needs no tending, refining, It is not a single…
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Reclaiming Posey from the Clay and Releasing the Voice to the Air: A Translation
Author’s note: I have been reading a lot of indigenous poetry since November is Native American Heritage Month. One thing that struck me is the Native American poet’s need to adopt Western poetics- rhyme, rhythm, meter, formal stanza- in order to find acceptance with a white reading audience. The poems of Alexander Posey (yes, that…