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Collage poem from Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao”

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Jody R. Rosen

Here is the poem we wrote in class last week: Pendejo shitting diablo affixed cheated pajaro moronic encouraged perrito puta cut Anathema dune fuckedupness badmash karma Nineteen voracious chincha flank snickered   What do you think the poem says? How is … Continue reading →

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Experimenting with Poetry

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Jody R. Rosen

In class, we are going to try some poetry experiments, after looking at examples of several well-known experiments. These include Tom Phillips’s A Humument, Jackson MacLow’s The Virginia Woolf Poems, the Surrealist experiment known as exquisite corpse, and some   … Continue reading →

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For our next class: Junot Diaz

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Jody R. Rosen

For our net class, please read the short story “The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz. Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for the full-length novel version of this story. In addition, read one other written piece by … Continue reading →

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