Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter disagrees. Neither translator was accused of doing a poor job, but recent controversy over who should translate the poem began when a Black Dutch style writer argued a translator who isn’t a Black female spoken word artist like Gorman shouldn’t translate her work. Gorman approved both white Dutch nonbinary writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and Catalan translator Victor Obiols to translate the poem. But now, one translator dropped out and another was let go after mounting criticism. 20.īy one count, the poem has now been translated into 17 languages, all of the translators approved by Gorman herself. Millions of Americans heard 23-year-old Amanda Gorman recite her moving poem " The Hill We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration on Jan. (Patrick Semansky/AP) This article is more than 2 years old.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the Midwestern states, Where our forefathers first realized revolution We will rise from the windswept Northeast We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the West, We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one Will be the inheritance of the next generationĮvery breath from my bronze-pounded chest, How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us? How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracyīut while democracy can be periodically delayed We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit, That everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree Not because we will never again know defeatīut because we will never again sow division That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: So we can reach out our arms to one another We close the divide because we know to put our future first To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of manĪnd so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us We are striving to forge our union with purpose We the successors of a country and a timeĭescended from slaves and raised by a single mother We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peaceĪnd the norms and notions of what just isĪnd yet the dawn is ours before we knew it
Where can we find light in this never-ending shade? Read the full transcript of Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb”: She has now joined the ranks of august inaugural poets such as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou. A graduate of Harvard University, Gorman said she overcame a speech impediment in her youth and became the first U.S. history to mark the transition of presidential power. PHOTOS: An inauguration unlike any other amid pandemic, nationwide unrest
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