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"Language," as Heidegger put it, "speaks us", and it shouldn't idly gush or drool from our mouths like water dribbling from a tap.
This liberation had an urgency at a time when, more strongly perhaps than now, academics and theorists were herding people into their ethnicities, sleeving them in racial and political data, arguing that we are always the ideology that speaks us, not the voice that sings over ideology.
Too often her poems inform us that language sparkles, that poetry refreshes, that clouds, plants or poems are miraculously wonderful: "words become us / we come alive lightly / saying Oh / at the wordstream of sentences"; "the delicious tongue we speak with speaks us".
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She speaks to us, like us.
He speaks to us".
Nature speaks to us.
Who speaks for us?
He speaks for us.
He really speaks to us.
Yet she speaks to us.
And this history speaks to us today.
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