I am trying to write a poem for the anniversary of the walk from Selma to Montgomery and the civil rights movement. It is something that the more I research the more it means to me. I want to set up a poem that visually looks like a road that the marchers would walk on. On each side of the road, I want the most ignorant hateful racists yelling racial slurs and derogatory comments at the marchers. The most hateful of these words will be as stones or rocks thrown. I want these slurs to be in vernacular and to come from both sides of the road. Moreover, no matter what they say I want the marchers and Dr. King to remain silent along the poem and the march I want the slurs to slowly break down and eventually become silence...with the last words being we overcame. I think the best way to do this is to use two-voice poetry to be read simultaneously. The trick is how I accomplish this. I just read a Joyous noise for a couple of examples, does anyone have any ideas or comments. I want this to be powerful and moving...please help
Originally posted by deathbypawnIn addition to poetry written in two or more parallel columns, of which there are countless examples, you might take a look at two books by American Indian poets: The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday, and From Sand Creek by Simon Ortiz. These two books offer ways of inscribing together history and poetry in complementary ways.
So I am trying to write a poem for the anniversary of the walk from Selma to Montgomery and the civil rights movment. It is something that the more I research the more it means to me. I want to set up a poem that visually looks like a road that the marchers would walk on. On each side of the road I want the most ignorant hateful racists yelling racial sl ...[text shortened]... les, Does anyone have any ideas or comments. I want this to be powerful and moving...please help