Dr. Emily Friedman on Mythryl: “One of the reasons I teach this poem in core lit is because it’s a…”

One of the reasons I teach this poem in core lit is because it’s a reminder of what cannot be distilled/summarized — that’s true of all literature, but at this moment it’s necessary to include texts where it’s VERY OBVIOUS why you can’t just read for plot.

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it wis January and a gey dreich day the first day Ah went to the school… —Liz Lochhead, “Kidspoem/Bairnsang” published in A CHOOSING: The Selected Poems of Liz Lochhead (Polygon 2017)

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