This Memorial Day I
just want to give a quick shout out for "One With Others", C.D.
Wright's beautifully moving/ textured on the ground personal account of the
Civil Rights movement of voices, struggles/strife, persons and events
that surrounded & infused her native 1960's Arkansas. It brings back
a whole world of which many of us (USA) 'back then' knew well. & the way
it continues - this Civil War - to haunt the country. With some relief from National media, my kind of Memorial Day reading. In terms of technique, there is also something about this work that makes me remember the great experience of reading Paul Metcalf - "Genoa" and "Patagoni". The compiling and collage of evidence in which to ground 'the whole' - impossible as that ever is!
Stephen Vincent
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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