86: A Poet Who Knows It: Cécile's Gift

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It is still 1853. Marie-Grace and Cécile have spent the better part of a year weathering an epidemic and taking care of younger kids at local orphanages. Will the sun ever come out for these two? Just before we are about to say goodbye, we experience a fun-filled and successful fundraiser planned for the orphans of New Orleans. By using her (poetic) voice, Cécile demonstrates that sometimes the greatest gift you can give is a bit of yourself (or a check). We talk about Cécile's journey in the context of respectability politics, and what her future might hold. We also offer a final assessment of the split narrative approach used for Marie-Grace and Cécile.

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0:00.0	Okay, so, Mary, as you know, April is National Poetry Month.
0:03.7	Yes.
0:04.7	I know that you love poetry a lot, so being really inspired by when we're recording, which
0:11.5	is also Titanic Day, being really inspired by Cecil and her kind of call to write poetry,
0:18.9	I decided that I would write a little something for the show and have it presented as a kind
0:23.2	of dramatic reading.
0:24.2	Is that okay with you?
0:26.0	Okay, um, sure, we love a poetry reading on this show, let's do it.
0:31.6	Okay, great.
0:32.6	I chose to do this in kind of a non-conventional format.
0:36.0	Roses are red.
0:37.8	Violets are blue.
0:40.2	Cecil wrote a poem.
0:42.4	So I did too.
0:44.5	I really consider that kind of like avant-garde and I really just wanted to kind of take
0:48.8	on like the level that we're presented in this book and just try to match it.
0:56.0	I love that voice so much, like it could tell me anything.
1:04.9	Wow.
1:05.9	Well, welcome everyone to American Girls The Podcast.
1:08.7	This is the show where we're reliving the American Girl Series book by book.
1:12.4	I'm Mary.
1:13.4	I'm so Allison, I am also a poet today, but we'll put that aside bar for later.
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