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B – Poetry Observed
Letterpress Poem
Authors Note:
This stop motion film is meant to capture my process of setting up and printing with letterpress. I chose this form because I wanted the object to speak for itself, or rather, speak for me as I have given it the language. Though this is a short video it took me about 2 hours to complete.
B – Reverie #1 Week 5
Reverie Prompt:
In your experience does a romance language such as French do a “great service” by being a “passionate language” that has not wanted to preserve a neuter gender, but rather multiplies occasions for choosing/coupling?
What is a great service of language?
Words ornamented to hang on the body
as they spill from a tongue?
There is no language to describe a body
in now now now.
We speak only the echos of words
lost in translation from the intake
of breath, construction of thought,
then exhale.
What is language without the body?
Where do the words fall if not on the flesh?
The sensation of the senses
come alive from what surrounds us.
I feel the language as it penetrates
even if I don’t understand.
A body understands the vibrations of earth
more than that of machines
though I once mistook the crash of construction
for an earthquake.
B – Poem – A Conversation Between Walls.
A Conversation Between Walls.
She looks lost most the time.
Maybe not lost but confused or bored.
Sometimes the lack of light burns her out.
I’ve seen her move from
the bed to the floor and back again.
She stands in front of me a lot.
Staring.
She’s been gone for a few days,
only stops in when she needs to
change her clothes.
Good thing we have the plants to talk with.
She’s not one for much conversation.
Ah but what about the times
an other has been in here with her.
Do you think she knows we hold her?
I think she knows we hold her.
She knows we hold her.
It was not always her we held.
There were different things hanging here.
Different backs and corners
of furniture pressed against us.
She must know we hold them too.
We keep them separate from the rest.
Does she hide in here or live in here?
Where does she go?
Good thing we have the plants to talk too.
This room would be so quiet.
*Unfortunately the layout of the text did not transfer here. It is much more of a visual poem.
B – Week 5 Logs
Monday February 4th
.5 hours – read New York Times article.
2 hours – yoga and peer-editing.
1.5 hours – wrote seminar pass.
.5 hours – worked on mid-quarter self evaluation.
Tuesday February 5th
1 hour – meeting about class anthology.
2.5 hours – derive – took notes on things I was drawn to/how environment effected my thoughts and movement.
.5 hours – reading seminar passes.
.5 hours – responded to two seminar passes.
1.5 hours – read
Wednesday February 6th
1 hour – meeting with Sarah.
.5 hours – Bachelardian Reverie.
1.5 hours – studio time – free write.
1 hour – reading
Thursday February 7th
2.5 hours – studio time (found some great info!)
2 hours – reading
3 hours – organizing type at Sherwood Press.
Friday February 8th
.5 hours – virtual seminar
.5 hours – free write reflecting on my body/buildings, creating prompts & constraints.
1 hour – reading
Saturday February 9th
*mental health day
Worked all day then saunaed.
Sunday February 10th
3.5 hours – reading
2.5 hours – looked up poet from Perloff, crafted the beginning of a poem, started Seminar Pass.
1.5 hours – journaling about my day and the struggle I had with what needed to get done.
Totals
This week: 31.5 hours
Cumulative total: 31.5 hours
Reading List:
- The Poetics of Reverie – Gaston Bachelard
- Discussions in Contemporary Culture. – Hal Foster.
- Text in the Book Format: Space of the Written Word. – Author unknown.
- A Basis of Concrete Poetry – Rosmarie Waldrop.
- Beyond The Body Proper, Reading The Anthropology of Material Life. – Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar.
- Reading In The Brain. – Stanislas Dehaene.
- Unoriginal Genius. – Marjorie Perloff.
Note: Category is set to logs, tag is set to letter+logs.
B is for Body Mapping
Field Study Proposal
How tightly woven are language and gender? Body and environment? During this four week field study, entitled B is for Body Mapping, the student will explore the effects of environment, language, and gender on the body through use of Derives (drifts through a city), writing/reading poetry, and letterpress. The student will keep a field study journal for observatory notes to craft into poems and create visual text-art via Letterpress. The student will develop a bibliography and put her ideas, questions and writing in conversation with multiple authors and text that have explored similar themes such as: Beyond The Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life, Gaston Bachelard, Michel De Certeau, Helene Cixous and various poets. The student will also help curate an anthology of the programs collective work.
ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
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Bachelardian Reverie
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Poetry
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Poetry Observed
Authors Note:
This stop motion film is meant to capture my process of setting up and printing with letterpress. I chose this form because I wanted the object to speak for itself, or rather, speak for me as I have given it the language. Though this is a short video it took me about 2 hours to complete.
Fall Term Paper
Fall Term Paper Abstract:
I recognize that I am part of a culture that values materials more than basic human rights, a culture that views humans as objects, a culture of material worth. In such an environment I have become detached from my body, my multitude and nature. I have since seen this fracture as an opportunity to rebuild myself the way I see true. This paper is that exploration.
Winter Term Paper
Winter Term Paper Abstract:
This paper is modeled after Craig Holdreges seven steps of “Delicate Empiricism” from his essay addressing science as a conversation between observer and observed. What follows is the conversation I had with the language surrounding, inscribing, and labeling the body. I will talk about my search for my body through language, urban environments, letterpress, gender, poetry and science. Knowing that these conversations are far from over this collection of findings and metaphors does not end with a conclusion but an invitation to go deeper. The voices I have peppered in with my own range from feminist theorists, philosophers, scientists and poets, and I encourage you to question, to add your voice, to join in reverie with those speaking here.