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РЕЛИЗ ПОДГОТОВИЛА ГРУППА \"What's News\" VK.COM/WSNWS nose, squeezed his eyes. He wiped.” What wholeness for what it is, not for what Honduran-born poet Roy G. Guzmán, whose debut is forthcoming from Gray- seems at irst to the speaker like a sneeze it’s not, all of it the pieces; wolf. Just days after the 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Guzmán published is an almost-silent sob—a prelude to words “Restored Mural for Orlando,” a long, dis- cursive meditation on death, familial love, “Lof remorse for decades of absence and in- ARGELY WHITE-RUN liter- queer brown bodies in congregation, and a r y institutions,” Claudia Ran- a city you visit “to fantasize about the attention. “WHEREAS when ofered an kine remarked in an essay she childhood you didn’t have.” apology,” Long Soldier writes: co-authored with the writer Beth Lof- Forget William Wordsworth’s “emotion recollected in tranquillity”: I watch each movement the shoulders freda, “can always remind you you’re a Guzmán’s poem was an almost instant eulogy, and deeply afecting—Exhibit A high or folding, tilt of the head both guest.” When I spoke with Danez Smith, of the power of the new lyric “I” to anchor a broad public response in the eyes down or straight through the poet stressed that if a renaissance is to crosscurrents of complex, marginalized identities. Young poets are producing me, I listen for cracks in knuckles or in continue, the publishing world—meaning work that taps intimate veins, and re- sponds to the headlines with impatience, the word choice, what is it editors and publicists, and reviewers, too— nuance, compassion, and sometimes fury; with historical breadth and sharp cri- that I want? To feel and mind you I feel has to better relect the writers whom it is tique; with unapologetic stabs at beauty; with ambition; and—above all—with the from the senses—I read now delivering to a growing readership. expectation of an audience. This is poetry that irmly believes it is necessary. each muscle, I ask the strength of the But Smith was sanguine: “We have a long Jesse Lichtenstein is a journalist and poet gesture to move like a poem. way to go in terms of who is celebrated based in Oregon. and who is lifted up and who is noted, but A nation cannot pinch its fingers I think we can keep making strides.” So far, to the bridge of its nose, but there are this generation has shown little patience, ways of giving lesh to language. Long which may be what saves it. Poets who Soldier’s lyric “I,” at once fractured and know their worth and throw themselves centered within its fissures, attempts into convincing us of it may be just the a poetry that can bear grief and make poets to expand and sustain an art form. something new—just as the poet wishes When Nicole Sealey, the executive that her young daughter, learning Lakota director of Cave Canem and author of and Navajo and beginning to appreciate Ordinary Beast (2017), marvels at the the fragments that make up her identity, “dynamic sense of urgency” she sees may someday come to understand in this generation, I think of the young SPECIAL OFFER FOR NEW CUSTOMERS ONLY ✗ YES! Please send me an Uncirculated 99-coin set of 1999-2008 Statehood, 2009 D.C. & U.S. Territories and 2010-Date National Park Quarters for ONLY $29.95 – reg. $210.00, plus FREE Shipping (limit 1 set). Also send my FREE Lincoln Bicentennial 4-coin set (one per customer, please). 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РЕЛИЗ ПОДГОТОВИЛА ГРУППА \"What's News\" VK.COM/WSNWS THE BIG QUESTION Q: Whose untimely death would you most slapstick and depth, men and Ernest F. Imho , like to reverse? Muppets. “Bein’ Green” still Baltimore, Md. makes me cry. James Gar eld was assassi- Alison Sweeney, actor READER RESPONSES nated by a crazed job seeker and producer Eric Weinberger, just months after he became Abraham Lincoln’s assas- Robert A. Legg, Cambridge, Mass. the 20th president. Some sination changed the tra- Yitzhak Rabin. Some peo- contemporaries and jectory of the United States. Greensboro, Ga. ple now say that the Oslo historians have said that with We’ll never know what could Listening to a sample of Accords were never going his intelligence, high moral have been if he’d been able Buddy Holly’s best work— to work. But that’s not how purpose, and record as a to inish his second term. “That’ll Be the Day,” “Oh, it seemed in 1995, when Union general in the Civil Boy!,” “Maybe Baby,” “Rave Israel was led by perhaps the War, Garield might have Victor Levin, writer and On,” “Peggy Sue”—one one person who could, by become one of America’s director, Destination can’t help but wonder how force of will and brave poli- greatest presidents. Wedding and 5 to 7 many other classics he tics, bring a decent peace to Anton Yelchin died tragi- might have written and Israel and its neighbors. Leslie Ellen Brown, cally at 27, having made recorded had he lived past Spring Mills, Pa. some 40 feature ilms. There the age of 22. Thomas Cahill, The trifecta of brilliant com- was no iner actor. He was Bar Harbor, Maine posers who died before we also a gifted writer and direc- A twofer: Martin Luther could call them middle-aged: tor, with a dazzling intellect King Jr. and Robert F. Ken- Mozart (35), Schubert (31), and revolutionary ideas. Had nedy. What America could and Mendelssohn (38). he lived, I believe he would have looked like today had What great music churned have been the Orson Welles they not died in 1968. in their brains but wasn’t put of his generation. down on paper? Erik Hogstrom, Ashley Eckstein, founder, Betsy Golden Kellem, Dubuque, Iowa Want to see your name on this page? The Delta bluesman Email [email protected] Her Universe, and actor, New Haven, Conn. Robert Johnson, who with your response to the question for Jim Henson. No one was died at age 27. How would our November issue: What was the Star Wars: The Clone Wars better at navigating life’s music history have unfolded most signi icant breakup in history? I often ask myself what Walt dualities: youth and age, had Johnson lived long Disney would think of his innocence and darkness, enough for recording tech- company if he were alive nology to catch up with his today—is it what he hoped it prodigious talents? I suspect would be? Disney changed that the development of the world. Imagine how 20th-century musical much more happiness and styles would have been magic he could have spread greatly accelerated. had he not passed away early. 100 SEPTEMBER 2018 THE ATLANTIC Illustrations by GRAHAM ROUMIEU

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