1102: How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook
Podcast |
The Slowdown
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audio
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Poetry
Society & Culture
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Arts
Performing Arts
Publication Date |
Apr 23, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:04:54

Today’s poem is How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "Today’s poem ironizes the lens through which the colonizer sees Indigenous peoples as uncivilized. It is a horrible term that diminishes a people’s humanity and ascribes assimilation as the cure of a presumed inferiority. It is an example of a poem that my friend Willie Perdomo describes as a poetry of “decolonial practice.”"

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