Tuesday, May 19, 2009

when the structures of thought we have relied on are dissolving

there is a consuming replacement
a void
a far as wide as an abyss

a weightless bounding freedom.

Move into me
speaks the new day, in a most intimate voice
the words are wrapping and forming around you,
taking shape with everything you bring.
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  1. db7May 20, 2009 at 1:29 PM

    The concept of myth in Zami, Lorde's 'biomythography,'reflects a new perspective on the various cultural stereotypes that have been projected onto her.

    As a black person, as a black woman, as a lesbian, as a black lesbian feminist, as a child of immigrant parents in america, as a person living in poverty.
    If she kept all her feelings silent and had tried to maneuver in the world with avoidance, she would be seen as a culturally imposed caricature of her true self - maybe even to herself.

    By going back through her life, her coming of age moments and childhood tragedies, through significant historical moments; WW2, McCarthyism, the Rosenberg execution, Civil Right's Movement, etc.
    She has written herself into them, expanding there definition in history. She has claimed all those identities and redefined there narrow myths to include her.

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