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Shona's Shennanigans
Hosted by Shona Rose · EN
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Reading Ourselves or Nothing, by Carolyn Forche
Nov 18, 202000:08:03Tap to summarizeShe 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
Transcribe →A Bleak and Wintry View of Unbeing: City Walkup, Winter 1969
Nov 18, 202000:08:43Tap to summarizeI found something to help us with our theme: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/books/two-poets.html
Transcribe →Using TPCAST for "Because One is Forgotten" Thinking Aloud
Nov 18, 202000:05:17Tap to summarizeWhat do you make of this?
Transcribe →Being and Unbeing Nonsense: Figuring it out with "Forche's On Returning to Detroit"
Nov 18, 202000:19:48Tap to summarizeIn 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.
Transcribe →Setting your Interpretive Lens with Being and Unbeing
Nov 17, 202000:09:17Tap to summarizeBe 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.
Transcribe →Poetry that reads like prose: Sanchez's "Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament"
Nov 17, 202000:07:20Tap to summarizeSometimes it looks like poetry, but reads like prose.
Transcribe →Punctuation, Common Words that Aren't, Poetry in Sanchez's A Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele
Nov 17, 202000:10:11Tap to summarizeNo 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.
Transcribe →Parsing Sonia Sanchez's On Seeing a Pacifist Burn
Nov 17, 202000:01:39Tap to summarizeReading 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.
Transcribe →Hearing the poetry in Sanchez's bluebirdbluebirdthumywindow
Nov 17, 202000:09:00Tap to summarizeSanchez is a poet, even when she writes prose.
Transcribe →Hearing Poetry in Sonia Sanchez's prose: Norma
Nov 17, 202000:11:35Tap to summarizeSometimes, I read something and injure myself. I think you'll hear the poetry Sanchez uses to describe her admiration of Norma.
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