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“From a metaphorical standpoint,” writes the revered critic Hanif Abdurraqib early in his blockbuster 2017 essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, “one of the worst things we do is compare love to war. We do this in times of actual war without a thought about what it actually means. Mothers bury their children while a pop musician
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An interesting way to organize a poetry reader/anthology, edited by Mark Yakich https://t.co/zeIrBurfAE
The way I say “My people” and My People know who they are even if we’ve never met, or even if we’ve never spoken, or even if all we have is the shared lineage of coming from a people who came from a people who came from a people who didn’t intend to come here but built the here once they arrived.
Hanif Abdurraqib • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
One of these was the haiku poet Taneda Santoka.