Even Milton Gets the Blues By Lynn Veach Sadler

BRUSSELS - June 25, 2018 - PRLog -- Writer/Editor Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, (former) college president, Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, and National Women's Hall of Fame member, has published widely in academics and in creative writing. She has published 5 books and 72 articles and edited 23 books/proceedings and 3 national journals and published 3 newspaper columns (1 now). In creative writing, she has 11 poetry chapbooks and 5 full-length collections, 125+ short stories, 4 novels, a novella, 5 short story collections and 2 nonfiction collections. One of her 41 plays was commissioned for the First International Robert Frost Symposium. As North Carolina's Central Region Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet 2013-2015, she mentored student and adult poets. Lynn's awards include teaching, Civil Rights, and Exceptional Service to the History of the State.


Then Came PC

I'd have sworn I was
politically correct—then came PC.
I thought they were talking about
the Personal Computer.
They want to kick Milton from the canon.
I played "Kick the Can" as a child.
Won't that do? Apparently not.
I have to pontificate:
"We must find ways to be inclusive in the canon,
not exclusive, to add to it, not displace it.
Not Milton or Harriet E. Wilson but John and Harriet!"
Charles Jencks used "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" for
a Deconstructed California house—real High Jencks!
(If only he'd been "Charlene.")
I'm a Miltonist, for God's sake!
Milton labored to justify the ways of
God to men. ("Not man." My dissertation director,
male, pounded the point home with his fist.)
I, female, labored—
to justify Milton's ways with women
to women and the whole self-deconstructing world.
Poor old Milton, so blind he unknew he couldn't see.
What was he thinking—was he thinking?—
when he visited Galileo in prison?
Let Ptolemaic and Copernican hang about together?
Let Eve serve multi-courses in prelapsarian Eden?
Had Adam interested in how, not if, angels make love?
Made Raphael blush a celestial rosy red in response?
Even so, THE sin is Adam's. Adam said she'd never
survive alone. What self-respecting woman wouldn't . . . ?
Virtual reality is merely old composition of place.
Maybe PC can be about computers.
8 Even Milton Gets the Blues
The Pope has forgiven Galileo.
Some have forgiven the man from Galilee.
As for Milton (now up for his 400th), my money's on the Jubilee.
Still lovin' that ole blind man o' mine
While the whole world's gone Plumb Cold.

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