Continue/finish your translation--or start anew. Again--make it into your own poem through editing (after the initial translation phase, you can pare it down or flesh it out to its best being)
READ THIS (linked--you can trust the pdf)...
Also, we will be updating each other on the project Thursday in our normal classroom before walking down to Kerri's class to see their work and show our own. So please be ready to talk about where you are in the process and bring up sticky points for class brainstorming.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Assignment for March 18th
ASSIGNMENT: VOLER—A FRENCH WORD FOR BOTH THEFT AND FLIGHT
Artistic Praxis: Collection. Get a shoebox. Put into the shoebox 5 found items. (They may relate to your final product but
do not have to.) Once they are in the
shoebox, make them precious to you.
Spend time with them. Get to know
them. Write about them in your notebooks. You may choose to write about them as a
piece, or short pieces about each of them in turn.
To turn in After Break: Put the
collection away. Return to it after
several days. Pretend these are the only items found in the hotel room of
someone who has died (ways and means are up to you/or are irrelevant). Write a speculative imagining of just who
this person was—to do this effectively you must divorce yourself from the idea
that it is you/these things are yours.
Musing: Read around in Dime
Store Alchemy, Charles Simic (on the work of Joseph Cornell)
FORK by Charles Simic
This strange
thing must have crept
Right out of
hell.
It resembles a
bird’s foot
Worn around the
cannibal’s neck.
As you hold it
in your hand,
As you stab
with it into a piece of meat,
It is possible
to imagine the rest of the bird:
Its head which
like your fist
Is large, bald,
beakless, and blind.
Prompt (for the notebook): Why
did you choose your things? Do you think
what you collect defines you? (Your
movie, music, book, clothing collections, for example.)
Bring to class (AFTER BREAK): Your
boxes.
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