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'MANDATE MY ASS!'

January 26, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Gil Scott-Heron, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Amanda Gorman

Gil Scott-Heron’s “B-movie,” his scathing 1981 takedown of Ronald “Ray-gun,” is an inaugural poem for the ages. And you can dance to it.

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January 26, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Gil Scott-Heron, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Amanda Gorman
Gil Scott-Heron, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Amanda Gorman
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'THE MOST BEAUTIFUL POEM IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE'

January 19, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in John Keats, Anthony Hecht, William Butler Yeats, Gregory Dowling

The “Ode to Autumn” lives in the present moment. It is Keats in the here and now.

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January 19, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
John Keats, Anthony Hecht, Gregory Dowling, William Butler Yeats, "Ode to Autumn"
John Keats, Anthony Hecht, William Butler Yeats, Gregory Dowling
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