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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: January 2008
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Thursday, January 31, 2008. Oh, silly confessional mode! From Laurence Lerner's "What Is Confessional Poetry? Sexton herself sometimes insisted that confession is not art, and that a poem needs to depart from factual truth and raw emotion" (Lerner 229). Music isn't a direct communication unless it has text or is supported by opera dramaturgy, so its ability to confess manifests itself in different ways. And I think I need this theorizing to accompany my creation of art becaus...
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: ughhh
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Friday, March 28, 2008. The Confessional is generally seen as a failure by two camps- the disciples of T. S. Eliot and New Criticism and those who maintain that the "I" is unstable and therefore cannot speak for itself. I agree that the "I" is unstable, but poetry, specifically confessional poetry, can be used as a tool to draw attention to the instability. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). All the Pretty Ones. R Suits Art Blog. Melanie Williams Art Blog.
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: I need a plan...
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Monday, April 7, 2008. I need a plan. I only wrote a page today because I got stuck. Tomorrow. 1- re-read Maio on Sexton. 2- choose which poems best represent my thesis. 4- conclude/discuss implications of this. 5- move on to Adrienne Rich- the process of revision- how the re-vision of her personal history destablizes the lesbian category she seeks to create. 6- move on to CA Conrad and Chelsey Minnis.re-read, mostly. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). All the Pretty Ones.
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: March 2008
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Friday, March 28, 2008. The Confessional is generally seen as a failure by two camps- the disciples of T. S. Eliot and New Criticism and those who maintain that the "I" is unstable and therefore cannot speak for itself. I agree that the "I" is unstable, but poetry, specifically confessional poetry, can be used as a tool to draw attention to the instability. Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Oh, Gipson hour, how I wish you could last all day. Encountering queerness in all of its ille...
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: Oh, Gipson hour, how I wish you could last all day...
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Oh, Gipson hour, how I wish you could last all day. I need to be able to speak of a poetic tradition and there isn't one. I can simply say what I see is vogue in poetry now, and that is to claim that the confessional is dead as a result of the instability of the "I," but doesn't this ignore the assumptions that go into poems that aren't from an "I"? Isn't human interaction still an interesting subject even if it isn't stable or universal? Anne Hartm...
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: I want to be gross with feeling! (Preface 37)
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Tuesday, March 25, 2008. I want to be gross with feeling! How does Chelsey Minnis construct her identity in Bad Bad. She gives us no room to know whether the poet Chelsey in the poems is actually Chelsey, which is okay because she calls the self of the poems Chelsey, and what does this self have to say? Playful defiance of poetic conventions. What kind of space do her ellipses create? Is Chelsey consistent, or is she playful in her inconsistencies? All the Pretty Ones.
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: December 2007
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Sunday, December 16, 2007. Goals: For Personal Reference and Emerson College's Statement of Professional Goals. Why be a creative writing major if you hoard all of your poetry and stories for yourself? This is what I did for three years. I shared in class. I practiced, but alone, and avoided performance because I felt mediocre. How did I not see this happening? Did I bury myself too far into my work? Will getting my MFA really feed this goal? Tuesday, December 4, 2007. Go to ...
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: November 2007
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Thursday, November 29, 2007. Recently, I've been brainstorming concise ways to express the thesis of my honors project. I want to argue that while the confessional mode can lead to normalization (as argued by Foucault, if simplified), confessional can also act as the re-signifier discussed by Butler in Gender Trouble. This is good. I actually want to work on this. Unfortunately, I also need to work on grad school applications and thing for classes with due dates. Needs to be ...
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: Long time, no write; senioritis?
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Monday, March 24, 2008. Long time, no write; senioritis? I've been so distracted, but now I need discipline. I've decided that 10:10-11:20 MWF and 2:30-3:20 TTh are now Gipson time, no matter whether my coursework is done. I've also decided that I'm going to have to be down with some Thursday night all-nighters until the Gipson due date. Side note: Yesterday I found out that I have been accepted by Sarah Lawrence. On Reclaiming 'The Universal'" by Suzanne Matson. Long time, n...
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog: I think tonight I will reread her first two books. Sexton, that is.
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Megan's Gipson Project Blog. Friday, February 22, 2008. I think tonight I will reread her first two books. Sexton, that is. I want to live inside of Mary Oliver's Dream Work. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees. For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body. Love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain. Work on...
