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• 5/5/2009 5:10 AM Comments from Facebook wrote:
  
   

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    Dianne Borsenik at 5:45am May 5

  "Mexican Market Woman"-- how appropriate for the date! Happy Cinco De Mayo!

  
  

    John Burroughs at 5:54am May 5

  And I totally forgot it's Cinco de Mayo! I just opened the book , saying I was going to pick the first thing I saw. After I saw it, I was a little disappointed and almost moved on to something else, before deciding to give the poet the benefit of a doubt on this one and going with it. Talk about synchronicity! Was Langston trying to tell me? ;)

  
  

    Christina M. Brooks at 5:56am May 5

  ya right.. wasn't planned.. uh huh...

  
  

    Christina M. Brooks at 5:57am May 5

  good one though......

  
  

    John Burroughs at 5:59am May 5

  Truly, my only plan was to post a pre-1923 Hughes poem - I had never even read this one before putting my finger on it this morning. I wasn't thrilled with it at first - but the more I read it, the more I see in it and like it.

  
  

    John Burroughs at 6:01am May 5

  I believe Langston spent a couple of years in Mexico with his father, sometime around 1921. But this is his only published poem with a Mexican theme. It was first published in Crisis, which was (and perhaps still is) the magazine of the NAACP.

  
  

    Christina M. Brooks at 6:02am May 5

  I just couldn't believe you didn't know it was Cinco de Mayo... after the taco discussion last night.. oh.. that's right you weren't there for the No. 42 discussion..

  
  

    John Burroughs at 6:08am May 5

  Funny that the 2nd poet I planned to post today is Steven B. Smith, who just returned from living in Mexico. Another "coincidence" - just yesterday I rediscovered more poems he submitted to me in the fall - plus I wanted to promote his May featured reaing for Lix and Kix a little. I was oblivious to the fact that today is el Cinco de Mayo.
  
  
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  1. 5/5/2009 8:03 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     
     
     

      Miguel Sanchez at 7:17am May 5

     i like this poem's rhythm and sparse simplicity. it has a tanka/zen feel. i am unsure, however, about the sun being the source of her color. also found it difficult to post on site as the session timeout/resubmit window continually dropped down. i love the site, though and keep up the good work.
     
     

      John Burroughs at 8:29am May 5

     Thank you, Miguel! I think I've finally pinpointed what's causing the time-out problem, and I will fix that today.
     
     
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• 5/5/2009 5:24 AM chris wrote:
  I think the only complaint I'd have about this one is it is too short. When I read it it said "more".. and there was no more...
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  1. 5/5/2009 6:47 AM Elena wrote:
     Mexico, Cinco de Mayo, Does anyone know why they celebrate on this day?
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     1. 5/5/2009 7:42 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
        I suspect somebody does.
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  2. 5/5/2009 8:00 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     The first time I read it, I thought: "Is that all there is?"  But then I began to think that's the point.  Maybe the mountain is a metaphor.  The Mexican woman (with whom a "brown" man like Langston might have identitfied) deserves a higher place (in society?) than she's stuck with.  Her mountain (higher?) existence was cut short by a need to lower herself to survive.  We are left to lament that this is "all there is" for her now.
     
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     1. 5/5/2009 8:15 AM Christina wrote:
        Interesting thoughts on that.. thank you...you have a deeper mind than mine at 8 am...
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