#Question by May Swenson

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[april-is]

April 6, 2024: First Birthday, Brad Leithauser

First Birthday Brad Leithauser

You have your one word, which fills you to brimming. It’s what’s first to be done on waking, Often the last at day-dimming: Lunge out an arm fiercely, As though your heart were breaking, Stab a finger at some stray illumination — Lamp, mirror, distant dinner candle — And make your piercing identification,

“‘ight! ‘ight! ‘ight!” Littlest digit, you’ve got the world by the handle. Things must open for you, you take on height, Your sole sound in time reveal itself As might, too, and flight. And fright. Some will be gone. But you will come right.

--

(I love the moment of thinking wait, is this a sonnet? ... it is!)

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[itsbenedict]

The Flood is a tabletop game by Jenna Moran about poetry mutilation and farmland financialization. Last August, Farn, Zero and I all played it. These are the results:

Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein (maimed by me)

There is a place where sidewalk ends And right before the long street bends, And there the grass grows soft for friends, As under sun the road it wends And there the moon-bird rests from flight To cool in the peppermint night. Let’s leave this place where smoke blows white And dark streets wind away from sight. Yes, Ickle, Pickle, Tickle Too Go o’er sidewalk with flying shoe. “Hooray! What fun! It’s time we flew!” Say each and every -Ickle Too And Captain Ick drives Pick down streets While Tick cooks stews with beans and beets And higher, higher, in their seats Ick Pick and Tick chase sidewalk’s sweets. Past pits where asphalt flowers grow We walk a walk measured and slow, And watch where chalk-white arrows go To reach where sidewalk dare not flow. Yes, walk a walk measured and slow, And go where chalk-white arrows go, For children mark, and children know Where sidewalk ends, it ends fo’ sho’.

Question, by May Swenson (vivisected by @eternalfarnham)

Body my house my horse my spouse How will I rouse when you are soused Where will I sleep What tea will I steep What prey, like sheep Upon shall I leap Where can I go With my to all fro too late for the show How will I know in thicket ahead If my genes will spread when Body my shed- raised dog is dead How will it be to lie fancy free without cash to buy A house in Mai Lai With cloud for shift how will I grift? Body, mortgaged horse and house And rouses GDP from the thicket How can I rest? I’ll sell my shed-raised dog And we all lie fancy free in Mai Lai To profit without needing any grift But how am I meant to grift When I own such a profitable house, Comparable to a timeshare in Mai Lai And bring with them a faithful little dog Called Body to investigate thickets? Your wallet will ever be thick. It Will let you achieve results without grift Your investors? Like sheep. Just trust me, dog, Your body, like a temple, but, a house On such a venture? You can’t let this lie! But if you don’t want Mai Lai Or to eval treasures in the thicket, Away this deal, then turn to theft and grift Then let the cops slam you in the big house Where you’ll be eaten by a faithful dog. In this race I have no dog. Do I seem like the kind of girl to lie? If so, I’ll return to my giant house, Because I left you in the cruel thicket, And need therapy. But my guy has grift And back the world’s most profitable dog: The body of this poem is no grift. You can’t let this venture eternal lie As if dead, never roused from the thicket. You’ll thank me when you beat the gambling house. A thicket fit for capital’s running-dogs, In you I lie, and profit without grift.

untitled, by @cloakofshadow (grievously injured by Zerovirus)

The world was born in flame and gold, By decree of realm’s supreme, Fresh and free of painful earthly debts. You would not dare the market break, The world was born- then torn and sold, Creation’s value pierced the sky It pleases you to buy and buy and buy To know all things would surely grow in price. A thousand graphs housing bearish prices, That quaver tracking values of soft gold, Merchants follow but one goal supreme, Flee from spectres, shadows of your true debt. All souls are born in void, and break, So why not make some cash when they get sold Souls born in an empty void-like sky Know nothing but that they must buy buy buy. And all their reason works to buy Lights that cast no shadows but for price, Each night ursines fight for flecks of gold, Strive and strife and prove themselves supreme. Constant siblings are their death and debt, Each others’s skulls they crack and fiercely break. No use for pebbles that you cannot sell, No need for solid stone beneath the sky. And even you, who seeks the sky You would not dare not to buy; You’ve made the grave your lordly price And drawn all warmth from hoarded gold Atop which you take repose supreme Lest ye be taken by the cursed debt You fear to burn but shall be pleased to break What you hold but know can never sell. An empty place beside the antiques sold Rich linens shipped across the distant sky My lord has said, you shall not buy, You shall not spend, you shall not price, You shall be bold and uphold gold, You shall not fear the doom of debt, You shall fund the one true high supreme, Your assets shall not break. But wake again when you are broke, I make to you a flaming sell- And swear on god who rests in sky, That your name she sure shall buy, And till she returns next with a price, To labor for your pile of gold. Worry not about your debts, But sing praise towards the supreme. This world of gold that does not bend or break Where souls are sold and take with joy to sky The will of god is buy at any price! Debt is frail; your wealth shall reach supremes.

Apologies to the artists involved, but we did survive the Flood and made upwards of thirty three thousand imaginary dollars.

[simmyfrobby]

just read "Question" by May Swenson and thought you would have a good take on it for hockey poetry maybe ! love your work !

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Through the eyes of elephants, deer, human beings, turkeys, octopi, and other (perhaps unexpected) mortals, Affinity explores diverse, complex, and fragile interconnections that shape our lives on this delightful (and delicate) planet. In the process, poems carry readers from backyard wildflowers to forests filled with dripping trees, from local prairies to a remote borderland desert, all the while exploring the passing of time, the inevitability of change, and the mesh of forces that help shape what might otherwise seem a single life. #animals #nature #poetry

Internationally known for her focus on anymals, nature, and disempowered human beings in the field of ethics, professor emeritus Dr. Lisa Kemmerer is founder and director of the educational non-profit, Tapestry (vegantapestry.org). Kemmerer has authored many articles, anthology chapters, and books (http://lisakemmerer.com/publications.html), including Vegan Ethics: AMORE—5 Reasons to Choose Vegan; Animals and World Religions; Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice; and Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice. For more information, please visit lisakemmerer.com.

PRAISE FOR Affinity by Lisa Kemmerer

Lisa Kemmerer skillfully wraps philosophical exploration in whimsical vocabulary and rhyme. Using the deft touch of a contemporary May Swenson, she brings us up close with vegetable rot, ticks, weeds, spiders, and salamanders. Certainly there is celebration here. But also, as with Swenson’s poetry, she infuses Affinity with an almost theological questioning of human purpose, an examination of the ethics of our interactions with other beings, and an activist’s gentle prodding to do better, be better. I challenge readers to come away from these poems without having remembered their childhood sense of obligation to the many others who share this world.

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[ochoislas]

PREGUNTA

Cuerpo mi alero mi alazán mi alano qué haré yo cuando caigas

Dónde dormiré cómo cabalgaré qué presa cazaré

Dónde podría ir sin mi montura rauda y afanosa cómo sabré si allá en las breñas hay trance o trofeo muerto Cuerpo mi buen perro astuto

Cómo será yacer en el cielo sin techo ni puerta y por vista el viento

Con camisa de nube cómo me cubriré

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QUESTION

Body my house my horse my hound   what will I do when you are fallen

Where will I sleep   How will I ride   What will I hunt

Where can I go without my mount   all eager and quick   How will I know   in thicket ahead is danger or treasure   when Body my good   bright dog is dead

How will it be to lie in the sky without roof or door   and wind for an eye

With cloud for shift   how will I hide?

May Swenson

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[starkiddreamcasting]

Broadway The Trail to Oregon

Oregound is Broadway bound with this all new dreamcast! This show may have a tiny cast, but it more than makes up for it with charm and character up the wazoos, so please enjoy!

(This dreamcast was apart of my April Fools ‘Broadway Dreamcasts’)

1.  Will Swenson as Father 2. Ann Harada as Mother 3. Patti Murin as Daughter 4. Melanie Moore as Son 5. Larry Marshall as Grandpa/Cletus Jones 6. Christian Borle as McDoon/Everybody Else 7. Antoine L. Smith as Father (u/s)/Grandpa (u/s)/McDoon (u/s) 8. Laura Irion as Mother (u/s)/Daughter (u/s)/Son (u/s)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.

[dk-thrive]

Question

How will it be to lie in the sky without roof or door and wind for an eye With cloud for shift how will I hide?

— May Swenson, from “Question” in A Book of Luminous Things (Houghton Mifflin, 1996) (via 3 Quarks Daily)

[violettesiren]

Your right hand and my left hand, as if they were bodies fitting together, face each other.

As if we were dancing. But we are in bed. The thumb of your hand touches my cheek. My head

feels the cool of the pillow. Your profile, eye and ear and lip asleep, has already gone

through the doorway of your dream. The round-faced clock ticks on, on the shelf in dawnlight.

Your hand has met mine, but doesn’t feel my cheek is wet. From the top of the oak

outside the window, the oriole over and over repeats its phrase, a question.

A Spring Morning by May Swenson

[april-is]

April 17, 2023: Mammogram Call Back with Ultra Sound, Ellen Bass

Mammogram Call Back with Ultra Sound Ellen Bass

So this is what I’m here for, to see inside the mute weight of my right breast, heavy handful of treasure I longed for as a girl when I cried behind the curtain in the Guerlaine sisters’ corset shop. Those tender spinsters could hardly bear my tears, as they adjusted the straps on a padded lace bra. I had to wait another year before my breasts swelled like wind-filled sails and many were the explorers carried away, searching for perfumes and spices, the nerve-laden nipples singing through the wires. But never has there been a joy like this as I lay in the pale green cool of radiology. The lineage of death has swerved around me. More happy love! more happy, happy love! As the wand of the ultrasound glides over my flesh, revealed is a river of light, a bright undulant tangle of lobules and milk ducts, ligaments and tissue, harmless and radiant against the black fat. I could be looking up at the night sky, this wispy band of brilliance, a shining spur of the milky way galaxy, and I, in my infinitesimal life, will, at least for tonight, keep these lovely atoms before I must return them to the stars.

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Anne Dyer Stuart has published widely in literary journals, including AGNI, Cherry Tree, Third Coast, Louisiana Literature, Raleigh Review, and The Texas Review. Her work won a Henfield Prize, New South Journal’s Prose Contest, was anthologized in Best of the Web, and nominated for Best New Poets. She is Creative Works Editor of Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work and teaches in the creative writing program at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR What Girls Learn by Anne Dyer Stuart

“Circling what is and is not home,” the girls and women in Anne Dyer Stuart‘s chapbook of poems, What Girls Learn, lead lives of damage, struggle, and self-formation. “There is a girl at the window of the burned house,” says one poem. “Girls’ ruin lies in others’ hands” says another. This poet is not inclined to let it lie. She narrates a life in the body, “with its bright optimism and its slow decay”; she tells stories of pleasures and terrors, the indelicate paradox of “wanting to be wanted, to disappear, to blaze up/like a prom dress thrown on a campfire.” Even the old metaphors sound new in Stuart’s hands: a sixteen year old girl asked a trick question is “mute as cheese.” Summer is described as “a slow dream turning/away, rotting on the sills . . . but you will take her anyway/all the bruises mush inside your mouth/all the sweet juice sticky on your chin.” What Girls Learn is an accurate, painstaking, and tender exploration of girlhood and growing up into a woman who still holds the unspoiled girl she was: “Inside: sleek, unblemished./Inside: the same you God/ stitched together—hastily, in Heaven,/ then threw down like a stone.”

–Lisa Williams, winner of the Rome Prize in Literature and author of The Gazelle in the House, Woman Reading to the Sea (Barnard Women Poets Prize), and The Hammered Dulcimer (May Swenson Poetry Award)

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The Renaissance Used as Symbolism

Animation likes to utilize artworks and literature from the Medieval/Middle Ages era (476-1299) as well as the Renaissance era (1300-1700) due to not only the fact it is part of the public domain (meaning anyone can use it without legal repercussions) but also due to its significance upon the present. Animation tends to make use of the Renaissance as a way to quickly develop characters or settings by showcasing elements that resemble the Renaissance or simply act like they are of that period.

One of the blatant ways animation uses elements of the Renaissance is to name characters after well-known people from this time. The Disney TV series Gargoyles during the 1990s many references to Shakespeare’s plays, and characters are no exception. Creator Greg Weisman introduced characters such as Macbeth, who plays a major role throughout the series as an antagonist. This character is a direct reference to Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy Macbeth (1606).

Gargoyles (Walt Disney Animation, 1994), character Macbeth

Along with that namesake, Macbeth acts fairly similarly to the character he was named after. He is very suspicious of everyone he encounters and resorts to violence more often than not. He also deals with the twisted torture of three witches who have watched over his actions during his life thus far. As Weisman is a huge fan of Shakespeare, his references continue, as is showcased during an episode in which the character/mythical spirit Puck is introduced. Puck was a character who appears in Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1605).

Gargoyles (Walt Disney Animation, 1994), character Puck

Puck is also very similar to the character of his inspiration, and thus is very mischievous to those who try to take control of his magic. What is similar between both Macbeth and Puck is that instead of having to spend a lot of screen time showing exactly what the personalities of these characters is, Weisman instead chose these Renaissance names due to the weight they already had in pop culture. People more than likely expected Macbeth and Puck to act similarly to the way they were portrayed in their Renaissance equivalents and that is certainly true in Gargoyles.

This kind of exposition through previously established, historical recognition is seen in other shows besides Gargoyles, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt merchandise (Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, 1988).

The four main turtles in this franchise are named after four prominent artists of the Renaissance: Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo. While these turtles are more warriors than artists and are vastly different in personality than their namesakes, their names serve a purpose to give them a kind of historical influence to their character that would have been lost if they were simply named “originally” without reference to previous works. Funny enough, the creators Eastman and Laird are history fans and landed upon the idea of the turtles having the name of Renaissance artists by chance (Tucker, “6 surprising facts”). Even though this may have been a seemingly random decision, the creators none the less gave the turtles a meaningful backstory, where their caretaker, Splinter, chose to name them out of a history book found in the sewer. Thus it emphasizes that these names are of important historical figures.

A kind of animation that takes historical recognition to a more interactive level though is the video games of the Assassin’s Creed Franchise. The games in which the most Renaissance references occur are Assassin’s Creed II and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, in which the player travels through Renaissance Italy. Along the way the player encounters characters who are also people from history, such as Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), and Rodrigo Borgia (1431-1503). Besides looking like their namesakes, these animated characters also have some of their most notable personality traits.

Assassin’s Creed II (Ubisoft, 2009) and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Ubisoft, 2010) characters Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rodrigo Borgia, respectively.

Leonardo da Vinci is particularly interesting as they make him obsessed with inventions which end up aiding the player through the game. This kind of detail did not need to be added, but because it did, players who enjoy history likely would feel more engaged as it would feel as though these characters are living up to their perceived expectations of how they should act. Pop culture has told us that these Renaissance men are extremely complex and cannot be fully understood due to the lack of evidence of their everyday existences. However, providing interactive, animated experiences such as Assassin’s Creed has given consumers a new way to analyze the past and pose questions that will lead to further dialogue (Sheppard, “Historical References”).

Besides being relatable by name, other works can show a clear symbolic connection to the Renaissance through visuals. During one class session, my classmates and I were introduced to an image from Disney’s 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty in which two kings, the fathers of Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip, are shown talking together throughout the film.

Sleeping Beauty, dir. Clyde Gironimi (Walt Disney Animation, 1959)

The stout king on the right, named Hubert, is shown to be a slight reference to King Henry VIII as Hubert’s stature and clothing mimics the visual look of the Holbein portrait. From the poofy sleeves to the facial hair, Hubert exudes the kind of flair that the Holbein portrait conveys. Artists take these historically recognizable characters into consideration when creating character designs, as it can make a rather complex role suddenly simply to understand. Instead of having him look like a completely original king with no base in historical fashion, the artists went with a design that would instead conjure up this kind of kingly appearance that continues to permeate our society.

One of the last examples that comes to mind when discussing historical recognition is Disney’s 1973 film Robin Hood which tells this classic tale using anthropomorphic characters. 

Robin Hood, dir. Wolfgang Reitherman (Walt Disney Animation, 1973)

Besides sharing the title character’s namesake, this fox version of Robin Hood also carries with him the signature bow and arrows that the legendary figure was told to have as his trusty weapon of choice. This Robin Hood therefore is similar to Gargoyles’ Macbeth in that the characterizations as well as the name are integral parts of the way the audience gains an understanding of the characters.

Whether the symbolism in animated media is blatant or subtle, it is important to recognize that imagery and historical figures are and will more than likely continue to be an important part of this medium, as it gives this era a chance to continue to influence the world of today. This is due to the fact that as a society we continue to claim the Renaissance as a crucial era of human history. We believe it should be remembered and built upon, even if our cultural understanding of the true nuances of this era happens to be very skewed into the belief that the Renaissance exemplified perfection in every way.

Sources:

Omar, Mohd and Ishak, Sidin. “Understanding Culture Through Animation: From the World To Malaysia.” Malaysian Journal of Media Studies, vol. 13, n. 2. (2011): 1-9.

Sheppard, Sally. “Historical References in Video Games: The Italian Renaissance.” Academia.edu Database. vol. 1 (2008): 1-6.

Tucker, Reed. “6 surprising facts about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” NY Post, (2014).

[amokedas]

Question Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen Where will I sleep How will I ride What will I hunt Where can I go without my mount all eager and quick How will I know in thicket ahead is danger or treasure when Body my good bright dog is dead How will it be to lie in the sky without roof or door and wind for an eye With cloud for shift how will I hide?

May Swenson

[queenofangrymoths]

Book Log of 2019

I kept a record of how many books I read in 2019. I liked most of them so I would recommend you give any of them or read.

So on with the list! If it has an X next to it then it means I didn’t finish reading it. 

#1: Warcross by Marie Lu.

#2: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.

#3: Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao.

#4: Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova.

#5: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Roshani Chokshi, Alyssa Wong, Lori M. Lee, Sona Charaipotra, Aliette De Bodard, E. C. Myres, Aisha Saeed, Preeti Chhibber, Renée Ahdieh, Rahul Kanakia, Melissa De La Cruz, Elsie Chapman, Shveta Thakrar, Cindy Pon, and Julie Kagawa.

#6: The 57 Bus by Daska Slater

#7: The Dark Descent Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kristen White.

#8: Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

9#: Broken Things by Lauren Oliver.

10# The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

11# A Study In Charlotte by Arthur Doyle

12# Simon Vs The Homo sapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli

13# The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

14# Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

15# The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

16# Carry On by Rainbow Rowel

17# Teen Trailblazers, 30 fearless girls who changed the world before they were 20 by Jennifer Calvert

18# Evermore by Sara Holland

19# The White Stag by Kara Barbieri

20# One Dark Throne by Kendra’s Blake

21# Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

22# A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

23# King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo X

24# Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

25# The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

26# Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

27# Mythology by Edith Hamilton

28# Percy Jackson Greek Gods by Rick Riordan 

29# Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M McManus

30# The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

31# Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

32# Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt De La Peña

33# The Phantom of The Opera by Gaston Leroux

34# Roseblood by A.G Howard X

35# Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J Maas

36# Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

37# Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown

38# Through The Woods by Emily Caroll

39# The Wicked Deep by Shes Ernshaw

40# Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

41# Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

42# Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward

43# Modern Herstory: Stories Of Women and non binary people rewriting history by Blair Imani

44# White Rabbits by Caleb Roehrig

45# To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Adapted by Fred Fordham

46# Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

47# Ever The Hunted by Erin Summeril

48# Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

49# Lost Souls, Be At Peace by Maggie Thrash

50# Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash

51# The Giver by Lois Lowry adapted by P.Craig Russell

52# My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand. Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

53# What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera X

54# An Assassin’s Guide to Love & Treason by Virginia Boecker

55# The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas adapted by Nokman Poon and Crystal S. Chan

56# The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R Tolkien

57# What is someone I know is gay? By Eric Marcus X

58# Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

59# The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien

60# The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien X

61# The Return of The King by J.R.R Tolkien

62# Lafayette by Nathan Hale

63# Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

64# We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

65# The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson

66# Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

67# Norton Volume Of English Literature

68# Beowulf by Unknown

69# The General Prologue by Chaucer

70# 20/20 by Linda Brewer

71# Always in Spanish by Agosim

72# The First Day by Edward P. Jones

73# Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

74# Writing Fiction by Burroway

75# Murderers by Leonard Michaels

76# Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases by Lars Gustaffson

77# Cathedral by Raymond Carver

78# A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley

79# Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

80# The Lives of the Dead by Tim O’Brien

81# Head, Heart by Lydia Davis

82# Richard Cody by Edwin Arlington Robinson

83# “Out- Out-“ by Robert Frost

84# The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy

85# I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth

86# Poem by Frank O’Hara

87# On being brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley

88# On her loving two equally by Aphra Behn

89# Because you asked about the line between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov

90# Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

91# Ars Poetica? By Czeslaw Milosz

92# Ars Poetica #100: I believe by Elizabeth Alexander

93# Poetry by Marianne Moode

94# “Poetry makes nothing happen”? By Julia Alvarez

95# Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

96# In Memory Of W.B. Yates by W. H. Auden

97# The kind of man I am at the DMV by Stacey Waite

98# The Changeling by Judith Oritez Carer

99# Going to war by Richard Lovelace

100# To the Ladies by Mary, Lady Chudleigh

101# Exchanging Hats by Elizabeth Bishop

102# History Of Ireland Volume 1 by Lecky X

103# A Modern History of Ireland by E. Norman X

104# The Tempest by William Shakespeare

105# Gender by Lisa Wade & Myra Marx Ferree

106# Trifles by Susan Glaspell

107# The Shroud by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

108# King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison

109# Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

110# Fences by August Wilson

111# Where are you going, where have you been? By Joyce Carol Oates

112# Daddy by Sylvia Plath

113# What is our life? By Walter Raleigh

114# May I compare thee to a midsummer day? By William Shakespeare

115# The love song of J. Alfred Prufruock by T. S. Eliot

116# À unr passante by Charles Baudelaire

117# In a station of the metro by Ezra Pound

118# The Fog by Carl Sandburg

119# The Yellow Fog by T.S. Eliot

120# On first looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats

121# the Road Not Taken by Robert Frisr

122# Paradise Lost  Book 1 & 10 by John Milton X

123# The Victory Lap by George Saunders

124# The Tempest by William Shakespeare

125# The Vanity Of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson

126# Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

127# When to Her Lute Corinna Sings by Thomas Campion

128# Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous

129# Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall

130# A Prayer, Living and Dying by Augustus Montague Toplady

131# Homage to the Empress of the Blues by Robert Hayden

132# The Times They Are A-Changin’ *

133# Listening to Bob Dylan, 2005!by Linda Pastan

134# Hip Hop by Mos Deff

135# Elvis in the Inner City by Jose B. Gonzalez

136# Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost*

137# Terza Roma by Richard Wilbur

138# Stanza from The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats

139# Stanza from His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

140# Stanza from Sound and Sense by Alexander’s Pope

141# Stanza from The Word Plum by Helen Chasin

142# Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

143# Myth by Natasha Trethewey

144# Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop

145# Sestina: Like by A.E. Stallings

146# l)a by E.E Cummings

147# Buffalo Bill by E.E Cummings

148# Easter Wings by George Herbert

149# Women by May Swenson

150# Upon the breeze she spread her golden hair by Franceso Petrarch

151# My lady’s presence makes the roses red by Henry Constance

152# My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

153# Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare

154# Let me no to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare

155# When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton

156# Nuns Fret Not by William Wordsworth

157# The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth

158# Do I love thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

159# In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti

160# What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why by Edna St. Vincent Millay

161# Women have loved before as I love now by Edna St. Vincent Millay

162# I, being born a woman and distressed by Edna St. Vincent Millay

163# I will put Chaos in fourteen lines by Edna St. Vincent Millay

164# First Fight. Then Fiddle by Gwendolyn Brooks

165# In the Park by Gwen Harwood

166# Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley by June Jordan

167# Sonnet by Billy Collins

168# Dim Lights by Harryette Mullen

169# Redefininy Realmess by Janet Mock

170# Lusus Naturae by Margaret Atwood

171# The House Of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges

172# Death Fuge by Michael Hamburger

173# Clifford’s Place by Jamel Bickerly

174# We are seven by William Wordsworth

175# Lines written in early spring by William Wordsworth

176# Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth

177# The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth

178# Lines by William Wordsworth

179# Recitatif by Toni Morrison

180# Volar by Judith Ortiz Cofer

181# The Management Of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee

182# Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

183# Jesus Saves by David Sedaris

184# Disabled by Wilfred Owen

185# My Father’s Garden by David Wagoner

186# Practicing by Marie Howe

187# O my pa-pa by Bob Hicok

189# Mr. T- by Terrance Hayes

190# Late Aubade by James Richardson

191# Carp Poem by Terrance Hayes

192# Pilgrimage by Natasha Trethewey

193# Tu Do Street by Yuaef Lomunyakaa

194# Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

195# Elena by Pat Mora

196# Gentle Communion by Pat Mora

197# Mothers & Daughters by Pat Mora

198# La Migra by Pat Mora

199# Ode to Adobe by Pat Mora

200# Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy

201# The Silken Tent by Robert Frost

202# Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

203# The Vine by James Thomsen

204# Questions by May Swenson

205# A Just Man by Attila József

206# the norton anthology of world literature

207# Pan’s Labyrinth by Gullernio de Toro and Cornelia Funke Xw

208# The prince and the dressmaker by Jen Wang

209# Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

210# The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Jacques Rancière : history, politics, aesthetics 2009 https://archive.org/details/jacquesranciereh00unse/page/n5/mode/2up

Introduction: Jacques Rancière : thinker of dissensus / Gabriel Rockhill and Philip Watts -- Historicizing untimeliness / Kristin Ross -- The lessons of Jacques Rancière : knowledge and power after the storm / Alain Badiou -- Sophisticated continuities and historical discontinuities, or, why not Protagoras? / Eric Méchoulan -- The classics and critical theory in postmodern France : the case of Jacques Rancière / Giuseppina Mecchia -- Rancière and metaphysics / Jean-Luc Nancy -- What is political philosophy? contextual notes / Étienne Balibar -- Rancière in South Carolina / Todd May -- Political agency and the ambivalence of the sensible / Yves Citton -- Staging equality : Rancière's theatrocracy and the limits of anarchic equality / Peter Hallward -- Rancière's leftism, or, politics and its discontents / Bruno Bosteels -- Jacques Rancière's ethical turn and the thinking of discontents / Solange Guénoun -- The politics of aesthetics : political history and the hermeneutics of art / Gabriel Rockhill -- Cinema and its discontents / Tom Conley -- Politicizing art in Rancière and Deleuze : the case of postcolonial literature / Raji Vallury -- Impossible speech acts : Jacques Rancière's Erich Auerbach / Andrew parker -- Style indirect libre / James swenson -- Afterword: The method of equality : an answer to some questions -- Jacques Rancière