1102: How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sanchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook
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Today\\u2019s poem is How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas S\\xe1nchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\\u2026 "Today\\u2019s poem ironizes the lens through which the colonizer sees Indigenous peoples as uncivilized. It is a horrible term that diminishes a people\\u2019s 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 \\u201cdecolonial practice.\\u201d"
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