Your Wednesday poem: Independence Day by Gerald Stern theartdivas.com/2018/07/indepe
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And reposting yesterday's poem: The Galleons by Rick Barot theartdivas.com/2018/07/the-ga
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And you bonus poem: I, Too by Langston Hughes theartdivas.com/2016/07/i-too-
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Second bonus: Why Is We Americans by Alison C. Rollins theartdivas.com/2017/10/why-is
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Third bonus: America by Allen Ginsberg theartdivas.com/2017/07/americ
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Fourth bonus: America by Claude McKay theartdivas.com/2017/07/americ
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This was the poem of the day four years ago:
Oil & Steel by Henri Cole
theartdivas.com/2014/07/oil-st
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This was the poem of the day three years ago:
The Censor by Richard Wilbur
theartdivas.com/2015/07/the-ce
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This was the poem of the day two years ago:
Home by Peter Balakian
theartdivas.com/2016/07/home-b
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Box of Cigars by Gerald Stern
theartdivas.com/2014/08/box-of
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Waving Goodbye by Gerald Stern
theartdivas.com/2014/09/waving
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Rukeyser by Gerald Stern
theartdivas.com/2015/12/rukeys
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The Censor sounds just like all the other Homo sapiens discussed in Freud’s dark but truthful “Civilization and Its Discontents.” We’re all, in the end, out for ourselves, but illusion, and denial, which Wilbur strips away for a single man, momentarily hides this fact from us.
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