tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post1277693370442899367..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: A Room of My Own: #JeSuisCharlie (French for I am Charlie) Haiku Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-30946540387330934622015-11-18T09:02:35.759-05:002015-11-18T09:02:35.759-05:00Peter:
If you read my poem in the update and the ...Peter:<br /><br />If you read my poem in the update and the excerpts in the first comment, I believe you will have a "better understanding" of my position on this "complicated issue."<br /><br />By the way, the "shadow" in my haiku is "polysemic,"<br /><br />Chen-ou LiuChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-51412051191266808362015-11-15T16:16:13.503-05:002015-11-15T16:16:13.503-05:00Hi - as you might have seen, I responded negativel...Hi - as you might have seen, I responded negatively and aggressively to this post on Twitter. I think your original poem is better, because at least it leaves some room to interpret events in other than a manichean 'Islam=bad', 'West=good' way. I've really enjoyed reading a lot of your Haiku and Tanka, but I'm disappointed that you could use the form for such cheap purposes. Firstly, it's a bad use of the form - you direct the reader to blunt political purposes far too obviously, when you should just let events speak for themselves- and then again, why didn't you just let the dust settle before writing? Some people are on life support in hospitals, even as I write. What do you want this poem to be judged on - aesthetic grounds? Well done- 130 people died and you wrote a nifty poem? Secondly, the metaphor is clumsy and cliched - blood red sunset- come on??? The use of the silhouette of a minaret leaves no room for nuance and simply suggests that Muslims - all Muslims are deeply implicated in this tragedy, This is totally offensive and akin to hate-speech. I don't know what I dislike about it more, the fact that it's such a smug metaphor or the fact that it propogates lies. Come on, I know you can do better than this. PeterAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09674298930467600491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-50117159830429911582015-01-08T17:43:55.980-05:002015-01-08T17:43:55.980-05:00For more information about an in-depth analysis of...For more information about an in-depth analysis of this tragic event, please watch Democracy! Now's today episode:<br /><br />1 Scholar Tariq Ramadan, Harper’s Rick MacArthur on Charlie Hebdo Attack & How the West Treats Muslims, http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/8/scholar_tariq_ramadan_harpers_rick_macarthur<br /><br />2 Comics Legend Art Spiegelman & Scholar Tariq Ramadan on Charlie Hebdo & the Power Dynamic of Satire, http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/8/comics_legend_art_spiegelman_scholar_tariq<br /><br />3 "A Clash of Barbarisms": After Paris Attack, How U.S. Policy in Middle East Helps Fuel Extremism, http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/8/a_clash_of_barbarisms_after_parisChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com