I didn't care for it at all. I'm trying to resist hyperbole. It was profoundly condescending and more than a little mean-spirited and I'm mostly just unclear...what logic guided this?
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I love a lot of her work, but "the voice or judgment of the collective is dangerous" is a poetic version of shock comedians defending their most offensive jokes; also for an essay that understands "the dangers and limitations of hierarchical thinking" this seems... hierarchical?
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These injuries feel like they extend beyond the damage caused by the individual who has been elevated and leads me to consider the institutional curation that set up the stage, the mic, the spotlight, and then published with no editing or reflection.
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Surely there must be some poem she can talk about, even another by Blake, that wouldn't highlight old racist tropes without addressing them at all.
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There is a whole ass essay waiting to be written about what's wrong with this "lecture." Just. Damn.
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She’s reminiscing abt how wonderful it was that Blake used (objectified) Black trauma (a child) to speak to her, & identifies the protection of white fragility @ the expense of Black death as a beautiful moment in the poem. While attacking public (performance) poets. That’s a no.
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Dang it. I generally enjoy reading the Nobel Lectures each year. I hope that in my lifetime I get the chance to know what Rita Dove would do with this same space--this amazing opportunity for an American poet to have audience with the world.
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What in the Al Jolson? I’m just trying to wrap my head around why she would do this. It feels like a provocation without a clear target.
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Deeply problematic, alienating, disturbing. What’s shocking to me (maybe it shouldn’t be) is to see someone awarded the Nobel for *nuanced, magical language play* (poetry) and then write a speech with so little awareness of the political and historical impact of language.
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Thoughts include: why? How? For whom? In this economy? All the bridges?
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