George Elliott Clarke
On Writing J’Accuse…! (Poem versus Silence)
Forbidden any right to write or speak to countermand
Stubborn, deliberate curses—the catcalls and Calumny,
I recalled Benda; I thought of Céline (or Louis-Ferdinand
Destouches)—polemical, cynical, his bravura ellipses
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