"You must go by the way of dispossession"
Pai, Shepherd, Eliot, Clifton, Szymborska
Shin Yu Pai:
Reginald Shepherd:
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T.S. Eliot:
Lucille Clifton:
Wisława Szymborska (tr. from Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak):
Opening titles of 25th Hour, Spike Lee, dir. and Terence Blanchard, composer, 2003:
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Loved the Szymborska
Thank you for this selection today....ironically we started the day here between on the air quality just at the beginning of purple (wildfires in CA). The haze reminds me of 9/11 when it comes, but is obviously filled with different substances. History picks her way in high heels/ through structural reduncdacy....
I like that line, and many others.