The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "Today’s poem ironizes the lens through which the colonizer sees Indigenous peoples as uncivilized. It is a horrible term that diminishes a people’s humanity and ascribes assimilation as the cure of a presumed inferiority. It is an example of a poem that my friend Willie Perdomo describes as a poetry of “decolonial practice.”"
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969: Us
968: The Long Goodbye
967: Ode to Purple Summer
[encore] 806: Polycardial
[encore] 822: Cricket Song
[encore] 804: Foxglove
[encore] 870: Hymn to Church Basements
[encore] 812: September
966: Love Poem, with Birds
965: from "Excess Sonnets"
964: abundance of light
963: Frederick Douglass
962: Afternoon in Andalusia
961: Nocturne
960: I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)
959: On Earth
958: Alain Locke in Stoughton Hall
957: Rooms by the Sea
956: Hair
955: Love Sits by My Father
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