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Shona Rose

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  1. 11/18/2020

    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

    8 min

  2. 11/18/2020

    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

    9 min

  3. 11/18/2020

    Using TPCAST for "Because One is Forgotten" Thinking Aloud

    What do you make of this?

    5 min

  4. 11/18/2020

    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.

    20 min

  5. 11/17/2020

    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.

    9 min

  6. 11/17/2020

    Poetry that reads like prose: Sanchez's "Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament"

    Sometimes it looks like poetry, but reads like prose.

    7 min

  7. 11/17/2020

    Punctuation, Common Words that Aren't, Poetry in Sanchez's A Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele

    No capital letters? Why? Sanchez writes here to reflect on a powerful, personal experience with a real person. Her words became a gift to him. Soak up the words, read more about the man, and then return to the letter to see what Sanchez is saying about walking, peace, bravery, and other things.

    10 min

  8. 11/17/2020

    Parsing Sonia Sanchez's On Seeing a Pacifist Burn

    Reading poetry by phrases, singly, and then reading them coherently reveals a focus on phrases and meanings that you would miss without such a dual practice.

    2 min
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  • Creator
    Shona Rose
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2020
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Shona Rose