by MahoganyBooksSeptember 23, 2009
An illiterate slave, Dred Scott trusted in an all-white, slave-owning jury
“Ain’t I a Man”
to declare him free. But after briefly experiencing the glory of freedom and
manhood, a new state Supreme Court ordered the cold steel of the shackles to
be closed again around his wrists and ankles. Falling to his knees, Dred
cried, “Ain’t I a man?” [...]
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by Melanie HendersonSeptember 21, 2009
So I’ve been reading The Art of the Poetic Line by James Logenbach. I appreciate Logenbach’s discussion of the line break vs. line end and do agree that when a line ends, it doesn’t necessarily break; the syntax may continue. Line break implies a definitive end, a stop. But, all lines of [...]
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