His best-known novel One Part Woman, highly controversial in India. He has written six novels and four collections each of short stories and poetry. Perumal Murugan is an Indian author and professor of Tamil literature. "Relocating it to older age group library shelves by its nature bars younger and equally deserving generations from accessing said moment in history. Tender, deeply poignant, and bitingly critical, One Part Woman is a powerful exploration of a loving marriage under strain. "For those claiming my book wasn’t banned, just 'aged-up,' 'The Hill We Climb' is an inaugural poem for the world," Gorman posted on Twitter. Gorman rejected the school's defense that her poem was restricted, not banned, and that it remained available for middle-school children. I’m a mom involved in my children’s education.” Gorman, 25, was the first person named the National Youth Poet Laureate. Salinas told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency she complained about Gorman's poem and the books because they did not support the curriculum. The Florida mom whose complaints about reading material prompted Amanda Gorman's acclaimed poem "The Hill We Climb" and other books to be restricted at a local elementary school admits she only read parts of the material she objected to.ĭaily Salinas fueled a firestorm last week after the Bob Graham Educational Center, a public school in Miami-Dade County, agreed to restrict access to " The Hill We Climb" − which Gorman recited at President Joe Biden's inauguration − and three other books a school panel decided were better suited for middle-school students.
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