NOBEL PRIZES 2020

Well, that's all this year's NOBEL PRIZES dished out!

What did you think?

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  1. Shuko18 October 2020 at 09:03

    I'd like to focus on Louise Gluck, whose surname has umlaut mark on u,
    descended from Hungary and Jewish American citizen.
    She won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Nobel was just about only literature award
    she hadn't already won.

    Her 2004 poem "October" is a salve for October 2020.

    Corona Pandemic reminds us of Plague year, we might create our life in"October",
    it's fresh and urgent.


    A few lines of "October":

    when I was silenced, when did it first seem
    pointless to describe that sound
    what it sounds like can't change what it is-

    didn't the night end, wasn't the earth
    safe when it was planted

    didn't we plant the seeds,
    weren't we necessary to the earth,

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    In the interview 2012, she talked about listening to Sam Cooke's voice
    as composing poetry, then black boys coming into Suwannee River
    on her imagination.

    Keep it alternative, not bookish.

    She said.

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    1. Ian G18 October 2020 at 13:12

      Thank you Shuko for your insight & wisdom.

      She seems a very worthy winner. Women are finally being acknowledged as equal to men (in certain areas).

      I love the line (from the award summary) "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".

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    2. Shuko20 October 2020 at 03:53

      Thanks Ian for a quick reply!
      The passage gave me hope.
      I love the words, individual existence, anytime.

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