Day: February 21, 2020
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February 21, 2020
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
In her book, Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks links poetry and place. At the book’s outset, in Elegy #1, the narrator invokes spirits in order to speak to all of us. The narrator asks the dead to “speak to us/ from beyond the grave/ guide us/ that we may learn.” This narrator promises that in time,