During the sixth week of my introductory poetry analysis class, I was tasked with reading excerpts from Christian Bӧk’s Eunoia. The topic for that week was sound: ways in which poets manipulate rhyme, assonance, alliteration, consonance, and a host of other sonic phenomena to evoke attentive response from readers. The…
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I first read Between the World and Me in my high school English class. It’s a memoir written in 2015 by American cultural critic Ta-Nahesi Coates. Written as a letter, Coates describes his worries for his son who is growing up Black differently than he did, with far more hopes…