Tag Archives: Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison: Stand Up & Breathe

By Robin Bates | Published: December 10, 2014

“I can’t breathe” has become a rallying cry for Black protesters. Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” shows powerfully what it feels like to breathe again.

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Morrison Helps Young Black Men Stand Tall

By Robin Bates | Published: November 5, 2013

The story of how Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” inspired one of my African American students.

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Love, a Bulwark against Desolation

By Robin Bates | Published: February 17, 2013

Toni Morrison expands St. Paul’s vision of love to include erotic love.

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Leaping Off the Fiscal Cliff…and Flying

By Robin Bates | Published: December 11, 2012

Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” has advice for Obama in the fiscal cliff confrontation: Leap!

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An Austen Romance for Dems and GOP?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 9, 2012

It proved easy to apply the election to Toni Morrison and Jane Austen in my classes.

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Morrison’s Novel Shaped the President

By Robin Bates | Published: November 8, 2012

“Song of Solomon,” one of Obama’s favorite books, yield important insights into him and his African American supporters.

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Obama as a Toni Morrison Character

By Robin Bates | Published: May 2, 2012

Perhaps some of the conservative antipathy to Obama is because he is seen as just taking over when he promised to work for social justice.

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Poetry to Read at a Hippy Wedding

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2011

Today is my wedding anniversary so you get to hear how I wove poetry into the ceremony. W. B. Yeats, Archibald MacLeish, D.H. Lawrence, and the Song of Solomon all made appearances. Get ready for time travel back to a very different era.

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Schools Cowed by the Religious Right

By Robin Bates | Published: April 4, 2011

Holly Blumner had a vision. A member of the St. Mary’s theater department, Holly wanted to stage Susan Zeder’s Mother Hicks, a adolescent girl’s identity quest, and then take it into area schools. This post is the story about how rightwing groups have so terrified our schools that the vision died.

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