Spirit of the water
Give us all the courage and the grace
To make genius of this tragedy unfolding
The genius to save this place.
--Joni Mitchell
“This Place” From Shine, 2007
[NB: the songs and lyrics mentioned in this article can be heard and read online by Googling the titles and/or songwriters.]
Many moons ago during my quasi-hippie English teacher days in the 1970s, I designed and taught a course called “Lyrics as Literature.” In it, we looked at song lyrics –...
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