{"id":65282,"date":"2019-11-06T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T10:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65282"},"modified":"2023-06-04T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T12:21:42","slug":"prophets-of-today-grace-paley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/prophets-of-today-grace-paley\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophets of Today: Grace Paley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[483,391,362,506,327,600],"acf":{"old_id":"65282","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38102,"related_cahpter":"346","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world","content":"<p>The prophets of old expressed themselves in powerful, soaring rhetoric, in inspired bombasts of eloquence, and yes &#8211; in poetry. So it&#8217;s no accident, that some of the people most appropriate for this 929 project on contemporary prophets are themselves poets! And poetesses. The feminist movement in particular has been graced (Paley) with an (Adrienne) rich array of (Marge) piercy-ing, prophetic voices that have contributed to this hard-won transformation to\u00a0a more just, inclusive world.<br \/>\nThis is the first in a series of feminist poets as contemporary prophets, working to change our consciousness and society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a case to be made that Grace Paley was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed, in her spare time, to become one of the truly original voices of American fiction in the later twentieth century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paley was often asked about the connection between her politics and her fiction. Sometimes she said that her subject matter turned out to be inherently political. Paley initially suspected that her work would be considered \u201ctrivial, stupid, boring, domestic, and not interesting,\u201d but she couldn\u2019t help it: \u201cEveryday life, kitchen life, children life had been handed to me.\u201d Another answer had to do with justice, the quality that Paley saw at the root of her literary and political endeavors. In a 1985 \u201cFresh Air\u201d interview, she told Terry Gross, \u201cWhen you write, you illuminate what\u2019s hidden, and that\u2019s a political act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Alexandra Schwartz, The Art and Activism of Grace Paley,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/05\/08\/the-art-and-activism-of-grace-paley\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/05\/08\/the-art-and-activism-of-grace-paley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quotes from Grace Paley:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLet us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe only recognizable feature of hope is action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cit is possible with only a little extra anguish<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI write for the still, small <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">possibility of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>photo: Lilly Rivlin, from her film, &#8220;Grace Paley: Collected Shorts,&#8221; 2010.<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":65314,"id":65314,"title":"grace-paley2","filename":"grace-paley2.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/prophets-of-today-grace-paley\/grace-paley2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"grace-paley2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":65282,"date":"2019-11-06 10:49:21","modified":"2019-11-06 10:49:37","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":440,"height":356,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2-300x243.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":243,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2.jpg","medium_large-width":440,"medium_large-height":356,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2.jpg","large-width":440,"large-height":356,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2.jpg","1536x1536-width":440,"1536x1536-height":356,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2.jpg","2048x2048-width":440,"2048x2048-height":356,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2.jpg","post_full_size-width":440,"post_full_size-height":356,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/grace-paley2.jpg","home_baner-width":440,"home_baner-height":356}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Prophets Of Today - 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