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Kenneth Burke: Do you Eros into Logos? (with a note on Tu Fu)

by Micah Towery Poetry
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Poets who write for self-expression write awful poetry. They don’t seek advice but affirmation.

Tagged as: 100 Chinese Poems, artist, Classics revisited, counter-statement, Eros, ESL, evocation, evoke, formalism, how tu fu works, Image, kenneth burke, kenneth rexroth, logos, MFA, poet, Poetry, symbol, the poetic process, Tom Sleigh, Translation, Tu Fu

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Translation, Film, and the ESL Student

by Micah Towery Film and TV
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A new language is a bully. Learning a new language is not really learning a new way to communicate, but a new way to think.

Tagged as: Dziga Vertov, ESL, ESL students, Horace, languages, Man with a Movie Camera, Marshall McLuhan, Odes, Translations

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A Ghost (Sonnet) in Gene Tanta’s “Unusual Woods”

by Brooks Lampe Book Reviews
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Seemingly disconnected things envisioned as unified: this is the surreal experience of the “marvelous” or the Deep Image experience of the deep image.

Tagged as: Brooks Lampe, Deep Image, ESL, ESL poetry, Gene Tanta, second language poetry, surrealism, Unusual Woods

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On Gene Tanta’s “Critical Introduction to Unusual Woods.”

by Brooks Lampe Academia
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Even though both the form and content of Gene Tanta’s work are particular to his Romanian-immigrant experience, he insists that his poetry is accessible to everyone. His poetry, he says, exists both as aesthetic objects and political propaganda. This is absolutely true about all poetry, not just his own. Inevitably, literary criticism will come to see that literature is always both.

Tagged as: aesthetics, american immigrant experience, Bloom, book of poems, collective memories, collective unconscious, contemporary poetry, cultural memory, Deep Image, Eliot, ESL, ESL poetry, Harold Bloom, image poetry, Imagism, immigrant, jungian, Marxism, modern poetry, reader-response, Romania, romanians, second language poetry, Simic, surrealism, Tanta, theory

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What’s Your Style Book of Choice?

by Micah Towery Academia
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I followed Strunk religiously until I read Geoffrey Pullum’s extensive bitchfest in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Strunk & White, and in recent years I have reconsidered my devotion.

Tagged as: comma splices, ESL, Joseph M. Williams, Korean, Mandarin, Mortimer J. Adler, Stanley Fish, Strunk & White, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace

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Google Uses Wittgenstein

by Micah Towery Art
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Canada, it’s spring-break time. We’ve already got trees budding. Actually, many schools have gotten the whole Winter Olympics off for two or three weeks of extended spring break drunkenness. I’ve been glued to CTV for the last week or so, watching my new favorite sport: curling. No joke, this game is intense.

Tagged as: American Idiom, Artificial Intelligence, Audrey Fino, Canada, ESL, Google, Knowledge Workers, Line Breaks, Lineation, Poetry, The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams, Wittgenstein

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