Sharon Olds Stuck it to Laura Bush Using Poetry, My Hero.
In 2005, First Lady Laura Bush invited Olds to the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Olds responded, declining the invitation in an open letter published in the October 10th, 2005 issue of The Nation. The letter closes,
So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it.
—Cut and pasted from Wikipedia. I read this from time to time and get a linguistic hard-on. Just thought I’d share.
2 years ago