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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition. Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four.
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I was then to look up that subsequent word, and so on, until I could prove to my father's satisfaction that I understood every word in the definition clearly, verifying the lexical descent from my original word.
At which point he might, or might not, assign me a new word. On this form of punishment helping him learn new words.
So if he was going to impose this on me as a punishment, I was going to — and I'm admitting to having the chip on my shoulder now — I was going to turn that around and make it useful for me. Enjoy it, actually. It made a huge impact on my imagination, my sense of my relationship to the language and the way I related to my father through language. I mean, I was 12 years old when I remember walking the picket line with him. And people were throwing food at us from cars on the highway, and honking and shouting profanities at us as they went by.
And it was really disillusioning. It was really just confusing to me, because I was so certain of the righteousness of what we were doing. On his father bouncing back after losing his job, and whether Pardlow's resilience after his own stumbles came from his father.
On the one hand, the resiliency I learned from my father, because as I've said many times, he managed to, he and my mother — I mean we can't I also feel uncomfortable not centering my mother in these conversations, because our survival could not have occurred had it not been for her resourcefulness.
But my father's sort of working through his own demons, and his own screw-ups — he managed to sink a couple of jobs after the strike even. But his resilience was absolutely a model for me.
So while I was persevering, I had also been creating the problems through which I needed to persevere. Yeah, it's complicated, I'll say. He would challenge me on it, certainly. I think that would be an interesting conversation. But I don't think he would say anything was wrong. On growing to see W. Du Bois' concept of the "Talented Tenth" as destructive. That puts a lot of pressure on anyone who is inclined to see themselves as part of that 90 percent.
I think there's a kind of built-in condescension when we say, 'I am better than 90 percent of the people whom we identify in America as African-American. The idea of being the first black person to do something, you have to first agree that black people are not part of the general population, that the achievements within this community are not consistent with the achievements of people throughout the rest of society. I don't think he would disagree with my representation of us as a family.
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