{"id":24554,"date":"2021-02-02T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/poetry-that-restores-agency-by-lucille-clifton#id28977"},"modified":"2021-02-02T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:49:00","slug":"poetry-that-restores-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/poetry-that-restores-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry that restores agency."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry Magazine has a good overview of Lucille Clifton&#39;s career, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/155348\/lucille-clifton-101\">&#8220;Lucille Clifton 101.&#8221;<\/a> It includes a poem we hadn&#39;t seen before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/49491\/jasper-texas-1998\">&ldquo;jasper texas 1998,&rdquo;<\/a> that Clifton wrote in response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.\">murder of James Byrd<\/a> by three white supremacists who dragged Byrd for three miles behind a car.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>why and why and why<br \/>\nshould i call a white man brother?<br \/>\nwho is the human in this place,<br \/>\nthe thing that is dragged or the dragger?<br \/>\nwhat does my daughter say?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the men who killed Byrd was the first white man to be sentenced to death for killing a Black person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/24\/us\/james-byrd-jr-john-william-king.html\">in the history of modern Texas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/poetry-that-restores-agency-by-lucille-clifton\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry Magazine has a good overview of Lucille Clifton&#8217;s career, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/155348\/lucille-clifton-101\">&#8220;Lucille Clifton 101.&#8221;<\/a> It includes a poem we hadn&#8217;t seen before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/49491\/jasper-texas-1998\">\u201cjasper texas 1998,\u201d<\/a> that Clifton wrote in response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.\">murder of James Byrd<\/a> by three white supremacists who dragged Byrd for three miles behind a car.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>why and why and why<br \/>\nshould i call a white man brother?<br \/>\nwho is the human in this place,<br \/>\nthe thing that is dragged or the dragger?<br \/>\nwhat does my daughter say?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the men who killed Byrd was the first white man to be sentenced to death for killing a Black person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/24\/us\/james-byrd-jr-john-william-king.html\">in the history of modern Texas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/poetry-that-restores-agency-by-lucille-clifton\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24555,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24554\/revisions\/24555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}