How about that Amanda Gorman?
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I thought her poem during today's ceremony was really fantastic. She delivered it confidently, too. Here's the transcript but please, don't read it. Go watch it on youtube or something.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/535052-read-transcript-of-amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem
Update, here is the video via Twitter:
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The message was wonderful, appropriate, and a joy to listen to.
As for the poetry as poetry itself:
- Of all the rhetorical, literary, linguistic, and phonetic tools at her disposal, she chooses only a small handful and tries to prop up the vacancy with the importance of the message. (Warning: this is quite obviously a deliberate trap I've tried to spring on you.)
- Pro tip: being performative while reciting poetry is like hiring loose women to run your merch booth after the concert. You wouldn't have to do it if the product actually had any music to it.
This isn't intended to detract from her excellent performance and no I'm not a racist.
Please love yourself.
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Well, shit. Now I know I must be wrong.
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The message was wonderful, appropriate, and a joy to listen to.
As for the poetry as poetry itself:
- Of all the rhetorical, literary, linguistic, and phonetic tools at her disposal, she chooses only a small handful and tries to prop up the vacancy with the importance of the message. (Warning: this is quite obviously a deliberate trap I've tried to spring on you.)
- Pro tip: being performative while reciting poetry is like hiring loose women to run your merch booth after the concert. You wouldn't have to do it if the product actually had any music to it.
This isn't intended to detract from her excellent performance and no I'm not a racist.
@aqua-letifer said in How about that Amanda Gorman?:
The message was wonderful, appropriate, and a joy to listen to.
As for the poetry as poetry itself:
- Of all the rhetorical, literary, linguistic, and phonetic tools at her disposal, she chooses only a small handful and tries to prop up the vacancy with the importance of the message. (Warning: this is quite obviously a deliberate trap I've tried to spring on you.)
- Pro tip: being performative while reciting poetry is like hiring loose women to run your merch booth after the concert. You wouldn't have to do it if the product actually had any music to it.
This isn't intended to detract from her excellent performance and no I'm not a racist.
Some poets have trouble with the venue
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When I'm elected President, or Pope, or whatever it is, the poems read out are going to be really dirty limericks.
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When I'm elected President, or Pope, or whatever it is, the poems read out are going to be really dirty limericks.
@doctor-phibes said in How about that Amanda Gorman?:
When I'm elected President, or Pope, or whatever it is, the poems read out are going to be really dirty limericks.
I’ll just lead all the attendees through a round of The Scotsman.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/11/amanda-gorman-white-translator-spain/
Translator Victor Obiols told AFP on Wednesday that Univers had commissioned him last month to translate Gorman’s work into Catalan, a language spoken in Spain and Andorra. After he completed the job, the publishing house informed him he “was not the right person,” he said.
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“They told me that I am not suitable to translate it,” Obiols told AFP. “They did not question my abilities, but they were looking for a different profile, which had to be a woman, young, activist and preferably Black.”
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Earlier this month, an author quit a job translating Gorman’s poem into Dutch following objections to their appointment by Dutch publisher Meulenhoff because they were not Black.
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