The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
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So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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