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Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith

The New Yorker: Poetry

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What Do You Think About the Wee?

In this poem, she adds legitimacy and stakes to the we that we can see the wee now. I think in an american context, we often take for granted who counts as represented in the we. We will not recognizing those who have been erraced by that very same term. That's the type of i try to look at that fat though you put it beautifully. Well, this is why i say, munches moreland. It makes sense for a racer then to kind of represent because it's thinking of a larger racer.

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