 | Mario Maffi - 1996 - 246 sivua
...humiliations and / crimes by the government. / Of self hate and of love that breaks / through silences. / We are lightning and justice. / Our souls become transparent...everything. / We are unafraid. / Our language is beautiful. (Quoted excerpts from my mother's testimony, modified with her permissioni Quando si torna a parlar... | |
 | David Palumbo-Liu - 1999 - 522 sivua
...recognition that the poet's voice and her mother's are fused in a common identity particularized by history: We are lightning and justice. Our souls become transparent...everything. We are unafraid. Our language is beautiful. The "language" shared is exactly that language which joins the personal and the political, refusing... | |
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Hiroshima jagged wounds from barbed wire. We must recognize ourselves at last We are a rainforest of color and noise We hear everything. We are unafraid. Our language is beautiful. — Janice Mirikitani, "Breaking Silence... 