Thursday, August 29, 2024

a modest handful of words

The English language offers many registers, many levels of diction. King James English. Schoolyard slang. The elegant syntax of Robert Frost. But what I like most is plain old, come-as-you-are English, the language of my midwestern tribe. A modest handful of words captures the whole human procession. George Bilgere on Generations poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

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