- Bill Clifton - My Clinch Mountain Home
ビル・クリフトン のこの曲「my clinch mountain home」が結構好きでよく聴きます、a.p.carterの曲ですね
- Lord Carey's bloated conscience | Stephen Bates
The former Archbishop of Canterbury should think carefully before public pronouncements. But he never doesIn the good old days, retired bishops used to be seen but not heard and they - and retired clergy - would move to another part of the country and into decent, possibly even holy, obscurity. Not so, alas, Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. While it may be difficult for him and Eileen to move out of a province which includes all of southern England he's certainly not troubled to observe a decent omerta.Most recently the Honourable Lord Carey of Clifton, safe with his seat in the House of Lords and ensconsed in the Privy Council, has complained of persecution and discrimination against Christians. This seems especially odd when you consider the examples he and a handful of his fellow bishops mention. Being told that you cannot wear a crucifix – a Christian symbol certainly but not an obligatory one – to work or being moved to another job within the local authority when you refuse to conduct civil partnerships for gay couples – is hardly akin to being sent to the stake. It certainly does not compare – as Williams pointed out at Easter – to the genuine persecution that Christians suffer elsewhere in the world, as indeed do other religious groups, at the hands of so-called Christians, about whom Carey and his colleagues remain silent. To pretend otherwise or to protest about supposed persecution when the Church of England, of all religious groups in Britain, has such a privileged place in the institutions of the country is, frankly, pathetic.And now he has excelled himself with his claim that there will be civil unrest unless Christians get their way and that Christians should have the right to sympathetic judges in tribunals wh 元カンタベリー大主教は慎重に公式発表する前に考える必要があります
- Lucille Clifton obituary
The work of the US poet Lucille Clifton centred with directness and humour on the lives and survival skills of black women, present and past. I had the good fortune to know her as her student, publisher and friend.She was born Thelma Lucille Sayles in Depew, western New York state, daughter of a steelworker and a laundress; when her mother, who wrote poetry privately, was given the chance to publish her work, Lucille's father forbade it – an incident that must have provided Lucille with both an early example of injustice and the determination to succeed herself.In 1958, she married a university teacher, Fred Clifton, and moved with him to Maryland; her first book of poems, Good Times, was published in 1969. She held several academic posts, most notably that of distinguished professor of humanities at St Mary's College, Maryland, and she was the state's poet laureate from 1979 until 1985. In 2000, her collection Blessing the Boats won the National Book award for poetry.Lucille was one of my tutors at a poetry workshop at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in northern California. She had her own teaching style, which I might characterise as magisterial mixed with self-effacing, except that it was difficult for someone as imposing of voice and stature as Lucille to be self-effacing. Better to say she was kind, except where she found kindness to have no place. She did not suffer a fool or a truly bad poem gladly, but if you gave her one whose heart or words, preferably both, were in the right place, she was joyous, supportive and encouraging.One of my proudest achievements as publisher of Slow Dancer Press was to be responsible, in 1998, for Lucille's first collection in Britain, The Terrible Stories, in which, among subjects that ranged from slavery to the Book of David 米国の詩人ルシールクリフトンの仕事は率直さとユーモアの生活や黒人女性、現在と過去の生存スキルを中心に
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