Saturday 14 June 2008

Paul Graham 'American Night'





Where do I begin? Paul Graham's poetry of ethnic segregation in America turns ascribed values of light and dark on their head. Too much light blinds, conceals not reveals, at the outskirts of the perfectly exposed American Dream. Our diurnal relationship with light became perverted through religious and cultural conventions : light, white, good vs dark, black, evil. A better set of explanations here.