[Unedited] Jericho Brown with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is Slavery a Bad Idea?
"What does it mean to be a poet of the new south? And do you remember this piece you wrote?" "As i typed them, my south made me in spite of itself. I love it because it is mine, but i'll never know that it loves me,. though i do belong to it in it." 'I would like everyone to say at least to one other person to day slavery was a bad idea,' he says.'You don't get to be a poet without publicly asking questions that people say it's rude to answer in public.'...
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