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| An Indeath Interview with Emily Dickinson, by Robyn Su Millerz | ||||||
The official excuse released from the White House went thus: While Mrs. Bush respects and believes in the right of all Americans to express their opinions, she, too, has opinions and believes that it would be inappropriate to turn what is intended to be a literary event into a political forum.
What about this idea that certain opinions have no place in a symposium on Poetry and the American Voice?
Your concept, then, of honoring poets diverges widely from that of Mrs. Bush, who seems to have fixed on the idea that the show is all, and that core convictions would mar the tea-party atmosphere. Is this tea-party concept of poets based on reality or fanciful thinking?
How do you rank Poetry, in importance?
Censorship abounds these days. The White House just canceled their symposium because antiwar poems were deemed inappropriate and the U.N. recently draped the mural of Picasso's Guernica because the depiction of the horrors of war was deemed an inappropriate background to press statements on the impending war. Your thoughts on how appropriate artistic antiwar expression is?
Will all this clamping down have a chilling effect on other antiwar efforts?
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