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Books, ideas, rants...
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Reading Ourselves or Nothing, by Carolyn Forche
She reads it better, here on youtube: Carolyn Forche performs her poem "Ourselves or Nothing." It is dedicated to the late Terrence Des Pres, whose book The Survivor, a much-admired account of holocaust survivors' will to bear witness, entailed a great struggle for the author. Forche, who knew Des Pres later, witnessed forms of that struggle. Des Pres taught at Colgate University and he was one of the first to offer a course in the literature of the holocaust (in the mid-1970s). The poem refers to Forche's own work in El Salvador supporting those who bore witness to atrocities committed there. https://youtu.be/5jIiRvFRj18
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A Bleak and Wintry View of Unbeing: City Walkup, Winter 1969
I found something to help us with our theme: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/books/two-poets.html
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Using TPCAST for "Because One is Forgotten" Thinking Aloud
What do you make of this?
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Being and Unbeing Nonsense: Figuring it out with "Forche's On Returning to Detroit"
In this episode, I express my insecurities and try to figure out what ee cummings was talking about and how I'm going to write the model essay for this unit.
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Setting your Interpretive Lens with Being and Unbeing
Be prepared. This is weird. Very, very weird. You probably won't understand it all at first. I sure don't. How will be examine these poems by "being" and "unbeing." I have no answers, but we will roll through the muck and mud of these ideas together.
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Poetry that reads like prose: Sanchez's "Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament"
Sometimes it looks like poetry, but reads like prose.