After reading Flourescence

After reading the book, I was amazed at the different writing techniques that the author had done. Especially the first one I saw which was Trace3 on page 1, it was quite interesting how she wrote it in a form of an X. The language was also intriguing  like at the beginning it says, "to make  to make up  she was making or marking something to mock up the maker". That one part was so confusing but interesting because I wanted to know what she was talking about and why. Also after reading the entire poem I started to realize it sound like she was talking about an escaped convict or who thought he got away without being seen. What lead me to that conclusion was key words like x, named, flashed, traced, masked, finger marks, escaped and unnoticed. Very interesting and it got me reading it over and over again. Even in different to see if there was a hidden message in the form of the story. Overall it was a great story and I enjoyed it very much.

The next poem in the book was called what holds the body on page 3. This was the most weird and bizarre written thing I had ever noticed. you have these whole pages with only little written on them and the language is confusing and misunderstanding as well. Like you have one page with four lines on it; then you have one with one word on it and the rest with a little more then the first. The page with the one word was the most shocking part because I didn't understand why the light being orange was such a big deal that she had to put the word orange on its own page. Its almost seemed as if the character was hiding from someone as you read the rest of the story. What made me think that was when on page 7 she said, SHHHHHHHH! It is here now, wobbling, advancing, my own, breath, gulps and gasps then settles down. Like the bad person had walked passed them and they was making sure no one noticed them. I think it ended the way it did because they ended up not getting caught. It was a good and confusing story for myself to read but I enjoyed it very much.

The last reading that caught my eye was titled * in part one on page 11. This whole poem/story confused me the most. I was trying to catch on to what was being said but I couldn't grasp the concept. The first half starts by I want to begin at the beginning the beginning of begin and just begin voice beginning to rise beginning to just voice the beginning of. Now that part was making sense up until it started talking about the voice that through me off and then it continued with more words. Like the rain and the snow and tough less and speaking and starting. Its all confusing but if I had to make a guess about the story and what it was about. I would probable say about an individual who have trouble making speeches and always find there self lost of words and not know what to say and how to say it. Or just even being scared at the fact that they have to do a speech in front of people and it scares them that if the mess up they probably wont be able to start from the beginning. I enjoy being confused by the wording and the point of view of the story/ poem. The book was really good and quite interesting and i would definitely recommend it to others to read.

Wreckage of Reason, and Fiction Packet 3

There were two poems that stuck out to me for the reading for this week. The first story I want to discussed is in wreckage of reason on page 72 titled New York/LA whirlwind romance. the title it self explain what is going on in the story. I love this story because it kept me interested and guessing what exactly is wrong with this guy. I mean its about a phone conversation two individuals have who never met each other, but the only words written down is from the men. Its things he said before they met in person and after. Just by reading the dialogue I get the feeling that this guy is not very good in relationships and he is a older guy that wants to control the person he dates, he tends to be sarcastic about a lot of things and its like he is constantly trying to reassure his self that meeting this girl will be fine. Like on page 73 at the very bottom he says, "I think it's going to be fine." "I think it's going to be more than fine." "I think it's going to be great." Its like he know its not gone be fine because he know how he is in relationship but he wants to make his self believe it is. Then before he meets her he say all types of nice things to her like on page 73 again he says "I think your brilliant writer." "I love your voice." "I think you're swell". Then as soon as he meets her he get arrogant and kind of mean with the things he say to her. On page 75 he states, "Someday you'll write something real. Not just ......"; then on page 76 and 77 he say, "Am I deaf or do you keep mumbling?" "You eat like a junkie." "The best thing about you coming is I finally cleaned my house." then at the very end of the story he states "I'm actually a really incredible guy." this guy was just unpredictable with some of the things he said throughout the story and I believe he definitely had some self esteem issues. All together it was a great story and a little funny at times too.

The next story was in the 3rd fiction packet call The Singing Fish, the second story in the packet. After reading this story I'm confused on so many levels I don't even know where to start. The story was little weird to me and I couldn't quite understand what was being said. A lot of the words kept being repeated which I didn't understand. Like in the first half when the story starts off it talks about the girl sleeping and the brothers picture her as a cave and in the cave they see fish swimming, but not just normal fish stick figure fish. Then they say, " these fish, stick- scrawled across made-out-of-mud walls--these fishes--they are pictures of us."Now them saying that got me thinking that do these brothers wish that they were the fish and this what they would look like and be. Then the moon came into the picture and the brothers hand which confused me too. Also they kept referring to they see, like who is this "They" the brothers are referring too. Then right after that story its the story of What our mother always told us. Which confused me a little more but not really. I think they block out the negative things there mother say because they see her as this sweet person and only listen as if she is speaking the kindest words. Also in the first story of the packet called when it rains it rains a river the brothers talk about a girl as if they want a sister for the both of them. It states on page 6 "Inside each mirror, we see girl, other than girl, gazed back at us. These girls other than girl, these other girls--these girls are girl's sisters. There is a sister, we see, for each of us brothers". These statements made me feel as if these brother was trying to fill a void in there life. Like having sisters because they have never experienced anything like that before. It was an interesting story to read and it can be interpreted in many ways.

I really enjoyed reading this weeks stories. They were well written especially the stories in wreckage to reason. There was a quite few I enjoyed and I'm sure others have as well. The cottage life was one that I thought was interesting also. I enjoyed it all hope to read more great stories.

Fiction Packet #1

This blog will be on the fiction packet we had to read for Thursday class. I will focus on two short stories I found interesting and why. The first story was titled Misdemeanors by Sherman  n Alexi, I found this story to be quite humorous. On page 6 on the right side at the bottom the poem starts off by saying the old man tells me he's a tough ex-con but his wife....tells me he went to jail for robbing a bowling alley. The fact that this old man wants to be known as a tough ex-con is hilarious to me, but the way the wife tells the story this old man had nothing better else to do then to commit a petty crime. I like the fact that the writer didn't call the old man crazy being that he clearly is. I just thought it was pretty funny and I love the way the story was written. It talks about the old as if he was a fool to even think he can rob a bowling ally that only has coins in the register. He also didn't have a good get away driver cause they passed out overall I loved it.

The next short story I enjoyed was the first one titled Survivors by Kim Addonizio. For me I got the idea that this was two individuals of the same sex who was dying of a std and one of them had a rough time growing up by not being accepted by their family. Now both of them are wish that they die first so they don't have to deal with each others left over packages. I thought this passage was little sad, but it sent out a real message that it shouldn't matter what your sexual orientation is you deserve to be happy. It makes me sad that people judge other based on their sexual orientation and it should not be that way because we are all human. I don't know the exact message the writer is trying to get out, but I can show respect for them even talking about the subject. It was a interesting story to read and I hope can say the same.

The last story that caught my attention was walking the baby to the liquor store on page 5. Now when i first read it I thought okay here is a man who enjoy being a father and wants to spend quality time with his child. Then its like he is constantly talking about going to the liquor store and starts to appear like he has a drinking problem. This may be because he's a single father raising a child and doesn't have the help that he needs so he cover his issues by drinking. The story just caused me a lot of confusion and I'm not sure how to take in all the information and material that's being given out. I enjoyed the whole packet and the writers have interesting topics their discussing.

2nd Response to Ed Roberson

Reading the second half of City Eclogue Roberson poems started to have more and more reasons behind them. I liked the fact that the way the poems were written you can interpret them in many different ways.  I Like the way we discussed them in class by going around asking everyone how they interpreted the poems of their choice. One that stood out to me was on page 113 "The "State as Body" Aspects of Eunuch Rule" it was stated that the poem was referring to a socio-path and the feeling that they receive when they kill. The poem like painted an image of a person that was willing to kill till the death of there self. I thought it was pretty insane and scary at first cause it states "I feel want as want. to kill..............My life around   my head   'til I no longer have body    with which to want". That to me tells a whole story without even stating the whole poem itself. This was a creative way to tell a story with a image of what is being talked about.

There were many part of this entire book that I would love to touch on but that's just not possible for now. A poem that really made me think really hard although it wasn't the only one was on page 117 called  Untitled. I didn't understand why he gave it that name being that the poem to me talks about a vacation that seemed remarkable. I wonder what made him call it untitled...was it because he couldn't think of anything else and he just wanted to write a poem for no apparent reason. Then at the end of the page there is a little passage he writes at the end which is confusing because I'm trying to find the relationship between the two but I can't. Although i do like the language used in the poem and it make it sound kind of relaxing when reading it. It makes me want to go on a beach for a vacation and just have fun in the sun. I can see why he untitled it because the poem itself is explanatory. I enjoy expanding my thought process and thinking outside of the box when reading these poems.

I realized that maybe Roberson wants us to interpret his poems in different ways especially in the second half of the book. The whole book is so creative in my eyes, the way he brings to life different aspects of situations. Like the poem on 115 titled The Counsel of Birds it goes into different like the sound an alarm will make to the sound of a bird that sings like a telephone. It just go into depth of life creatures and the amazing sounds that each one makes and the sounds changes from one place to the next. I maybe exaggerating the poem a little but everyone has their own thoughts on it. Then towards the end I felt as if he were talking about the birds dying out just like if the alarm has no batteries we won't hear a ring, then the birds that die we lose the music to our ears. All around the poems are spectacular and they help you imagine what Roberson is trying to tell us but in a creative way. I enjoyed the discussion of this book and everyone else thoughts about it.

After Ed Roberson poem

The poem i decided to focus on was the poem titled Spontaneous Supremacies. When i first read the poem i thought of an individual who has been locked away in a room for so long that no one remembers him. I also got the feeling that this is a person with cancer and trying to fight back to get their life back to how it use to be. I mean this poem can be taken any way but the part that got me was the part that stated "what was locked out...out of nowhere    now in   starts in its shit   it wants everything back." its saying as if they have fought this before and it left and now that the cancer has returned its taken everything back from there life.

My Part

What is belonged should come

No longer pondering forgetful squatters

Starry eyes foreseen wakened

Betrayed

Claims nothing; there is nothing

but I want

I see

I forget the locks of chains

backing up missing exposure

packing raised village neighbors

silent, alone hazed by the daze

counting cities darken but isn't

bearing the eternity of equal

who has forgotten Guilty bone

Cells cluttered

Coward roaring grabs a hold

EVERYTHING CLAIMED

Thoughts on The city of Eclogue by Ed Roberson

The reading I will be focusing on is City Eclogue. When I first start reading the book I wasn't sure what to think. Although the reading was very interesting there are a lot of things I would like to touch on. The poems are told in ways for the reader to imagine or picture the life the author has seen. The visual of most of the poems are line breaks as if he wants the readers to fill in his thoughts or the fact that he lost his train of thought because of the way of the city. There was one poem that I couldn't stop reading in the City Eclogue section titles Sequoia sempervirens on page 18. It states "we rip around getting our nut off to the city; Foot totals maps ply upward impossible city on top of city even down underground layered into time...." This felt as if he was speaking of the past and the fact that things have not change even though many changes have been made in the city. It's just one of those poems that's so deep that you want to get the real meaning of the whole thing. It also made me feel like he wrote it out in that specific way for us to kind of interpret it in different ways to the point where it can be describe different things.

These poems all point out specific things in different ways. In class we discussed some of the themes that some of the poems were putting out. Like cultural (abstract) issues, historical and political events, pollution, trash, knowing self, and even becoming god. There were a variety of things some in description, some imaginary, some just for you to visualize it all. Some of the poems I got the understanding of and some I did not. Like the language of the poems showed where he had anger in like in the Beauty standing section on page 48 in the middle of the poem he states "what kind of really bastard son wishes his father had won election to eradicate his sister for the fucker's birthday?" That language creates a sound in your head and all I hear is yell and that tense in his voice. I'm could quite figure what exactly all the anger was coming from but its like that in most of the beauty standing poems. Like the part on page 41 section 1at the bottom when he says, " building up more junk on more junk doesn't pay the bills and get the light back on." That line alone tells many things and for me it say there are many things that people care about and there so worried about where trash gone go that they forget about the important things in life like water.

Overall, I think the first half is very interesting and I thought he did a good job at helping the reader to kind of picture what he has picture without saying too much about it. He language was simple yet detailed. The way he did the line breaks for majority of the poems is still a little weird for me but everyone has their way of saying things. Its like he was trying to compare reality to the way of life in his own eyes. There was one point where one of the classmates felt as if he was just writing things with no meaning to it what so ever. Like the poem titled Place lit by a window on page 33; the poem starting off sounded like he was just taking about sockets and basics in an apartment and you kind of get the feeling like this is pointless. As the poem continues he tries to create this metaphor to say things may be tough now but soon things have to get better just pull yourself up off the floor. That part I found interesting and I'm sure the remainder of the book is awesome and quite intriguing.I enjoyed it all to be quite honest.

Thoughts on Shakespeare, Mullen, Berrigan

When first reading these sonnets your not sure how to take in the information. So for me starting off with Shakespeare I felt like he focused on love a lot. As far as what it is and how it should be, the feel of it and much more.Like for the first and second poem I felt like he was telling us love is never one thing. Like you have to grow into love and let it grow. Like there might not seem like love at the beginning but in time it should but even then it might not show the way you want it too. Of  course the 113 poem we discussed in class was quite interesting and a little rude in my opinion. Still written by a great poet and it was still understanding.

As for Mullen sonnets 130,   It was thought that it resembled Shakespeare's sonnet 130. they both talk about how a women features was either better or worse then what it was being compared to. However one did it in a positive fun way and the other seemed a little negative. I was thinking that wouldn't it be possible for two people to think the same thing just in different ways. So that the subject of artist taking other artist work should not be discussed. That's something to think about for you.

The there's Berrigan's sonnets, I thought  it was creative the way it was written, whether he meant to write it that way or not. or the fact that he wanted the readers to be able to take different views on it.When I first read it I was like okay this is weird, so when that fact was pointed out to me it made a little more sense but not a lot. As for the other I have no idea what to think.

For these sonnets  the poet could have been trying to tell a complete story to the readers. I'm just the type of person that doesn't really understand how to read something, and twist it around; because normally how something is wrote doesn't verify the true meaning of what's being said. I enjoyed reading the sonnets and can't wait to read more. This is Porsha's final thoughts signing OUT!