Read the excerpt from “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” in other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. on february 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, bless me, ultima. the book was banned from high school classes in bloomfield, new mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: “we took the books out and personally saw that they were burned.” which type of rhetoric used most shows how the powerful use censorship to silence the powerless?