“It Came Late” (Berandu iritsi zen) is a pacifist poem. Changes in society take too long to happen: there are some people who see the way forward, and thanks to them society advances, although perhaps too late for others. The consequences of violence are always irreparable. We have to learn from what has happened and keep memory alive, so that injustices do not happen again.
Kirmen Uribe on "It Came Late" |
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In Memoriam: Janice Mirikitani
"Janice Mirikitani, a vibrant former poet laureate of San Francisco who spent time as a child in an internment camp for people of Japanese ancestry during World War II, then worked most of her life aiding people in need, died on July 29 in a hospital in San Francisco."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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Heather Green on Camille T. Dungy’s Trophic Cascade
"Camille Dungy is both an outstanding writer of the 'natural world' and one of the most deft makers of metaphor working today. Her metaphors refuse to let the reader rest in their connections, but instead create a kind of friction in the mapping of vehicle onto tenor, an incongruity that invites the reader to follow the various threads of implication in an unlikely pairing." |
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