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Poetry and Poetics III: Bodies and Forms

Session 5 - Sunday 8:00-9:30am
Henry Hall 207
Presiding Officer: 
Steven Gould Axelrod
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Lorrie Goldensohn
  1. "If you cut my yellow wrists, I'll teach my yellow toes to write": Defiance, Resistance, and Body in the Poetry of Marilyn Chin. Catherine Cucinella, California State University, San Marcos

    Chin’s poems reveal the conflicting desires that the promise of “Gold Mountain” initiates. Poems such as “A Chinaman’s Chance,” “Blues on Yellow,” and “That Half Is Almost Gone” represent the body as a critical element in assimilation or resistance.

  2. Rethinking the Poetry of Gertrude Stein's The World is Round: 'there was an o and an o is round, oh dear not a sound'. Katie Strode, University of California, Riverside

    Despite Rose’s spunk and questioning intelligence, there is an underlying sadness to Stein’s The World Is Round, a sadness rooted in the formal complexity of Stein’s poetry.

  3. Image, Text, and the Intermedial Poetry of Shel Silverstein. Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., San Diego State University

    This paper explores the visual dimension of Silverstein’s children’s poetry, analyzing his unique method of blurring the line between image and text, word and picture, a method which occasions new ways of reading, new ways of relating to texts.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed