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Author: | Bobbi Faulkner [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:43 pm ] |
Post subject: | Barbara Kingslover's opinion of poetry |
Yep--you guessed it! I LOVE poetry! But Barbara Kingslover seems to think it is important, too! Beating Time Commemorating the removal of poetry as a requirement in Arizonia's schools, August 1997 The Governor interdicted: poetry is evicted from our curricula, for metaphor and rhyme take time from science. Our children's self reliance rests upon the things we count on. The laws of engineering. Poeteering squanders time, and time is money. He said: let the chips fall where they may. The governor's voice fell down through quiksilver microchip song hummed along and the law was delivered of its hearing. The students of engineering bent their numbers in silent classrooms, where the fans overhead whispered "I am I am" in iambic pentameter. Unruly and fractious numbers were discarded at the bell. In the crumpled, cast-off equations, small black figures shaped like tadpoles formed a nation, unobserved, in the wastepaper basket. Outside, a storm is about to crack the sky. Lightening will score dry riverbeds, peeling back the mud like a plow, bellowing, taking out bridges, completely unexpectedly. The children too young to have heard of poetry's demise turn their eyes to the windows, to see what they can count on. They will rise and dance to the iamb of the fans, whispering illicit rhymes, watching the sky for a sign while the rain beats time. --Barbara Kingslover Don't you guys just love that last line? |
Author: | Nora Vines [ Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:25 am ] |
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Don't you just love that gal? Thank you for sharing all of these great selections Bobbi!!! |
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