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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1042: Ode to Badminton
1041: By Then
1040: The Idea of Order at Key West
1039: What Good Is Silence
[encore] 877: The Lifeline
1038: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
1037: An Open Call to Single Daughters of Single Mothers
1036: Pleasure
1035: The Darkling Thrush
1034: Cliché
1033: On Meeting My Biological Father
1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me
1031: Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear
1030: Fourth Wall Arpeggio
1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso
1028: Yet, the Loveliness
1027: The Memory of the Young
1026: Ode to Bones
1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World
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