Experimenting with Blackout Poetry

                              
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HOW TO READ MORE POETRY

Dear Students,
I know that you are overloaded with reading a lot of text and how this turns into work than pleasure. Here are some tips to make you read more and how to enjoy poetry listed by Carina Pareira:

POETRY APPS
Poetry apps are one of the best tools ever invented. Not only do I get a new poem delivered to my phone every day, it comes with a notification, which means I won’t forget to have my small dose of daily poetry.

KEEP A BOOK BY YOUR BEDSIDE
Reading, in general, makes my brain turn off all of the hectic work of the day, so reading one poem before going to sleep is the perfect way to shut my brain off and help me relax. If you keep a book by your bedside you’ll be more likely to pick it up, and create a habit.
One poem a day, it’s all it takes to read at least 365 poems a year.

POETRY AUDIOBOOKS
Audiobooks are great for traveling around, either by car or public transport, so if you are trying to raise your poetry score, nothing better than keeping a poetry audiobook ready on your phone or mp3 player.

SPOTIFY
Nowadays, Spotify is much more than just a music platform, and you can find a lot of poetry and podcasts there. Button Poetry, for example, or the podcast VS are great sources of poetry that you can consume on the go, commuting to work, or at the gym.

POETRY PODCASTS
Podcasts are definitely the medium of modern times, and I love listening to them at work, when I’m doing chores and crafts, or when I need to kill time. Poetry podcasts are growing, and through them you can meet wonderful artists.

I would also suggest to keep a little poetry book in your bag. So you can open and read a while whenever you need: POETRY IN YOUR BAG
source: https://bookriot.com/2019/02/26/how-to-read-more-poetry/
photo: Walter Sanders, LIFE, 1957

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear Students,
There is a problem at the uni-system. Some of you do not appear at the name polling list but are listed at the uni-system. Please visit the student affairs as soon as possible since this may cause a problem in both the Midterm and the Final.
Here are the names for COMPARATIVE LIT II:
Atakan Seyyar
Asya Yurtseven
Berrin Bektas
Seda Karacuka
Binnur Bal
Murat Akçay
Here are the names for SEMINAR NOVEL:
Berrin Bektas
Seda Karacuka

best
gh

PS: I have also announced your Quiz grades.

Homework for ACL 11.03.- 13.03.2019

FOR ACL 352:
1.“Goethe Coins a Phrase,” David Damrosch. 2. “Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” Fredric Jameson.  3. “Conjectures on World Literature,” Franco Moretti, New Left Review 1   

FOR ACL 408:
Please read 1-50 (half of the novel) THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger:
http://www.uzickagimnazija.edu.rs/files/Catcher%20in%20the%20Rye.pdf

FOR ACL 306:
Pls print out the following poems:

Fog
BY CARL SANDBURG
The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Chicago
BY CARL SANDBURG
Hog Butcher for the World,
   Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
   Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
   Stormy, husky, brawling,
   City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
   Bareheaded,
   Shoveling,
   Wrecking,
   Planning,
   Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,
                   Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

Grass

BY CARL SANDBURG

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. 

Shovel them under and let me work— 

                                          I am the grass; I cover all. 

And pile them high at Gettysburg 

And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. 

Shovel them under and let me work. 

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: 

                                          What place is this? 

                                          Where are we now? 

                                          I am the grass. 

                                          Let me work.

Daughter

by GERTRUDE STEIN

Why is the world at peace.

This may astonish you a little but when you realise how

easily Mrs. Charles Bianco sells the work of American

painters to American millionaires you will recognize that

authorities are constrained to be relieved. Let me tell you a

story. A painter loved a woman. A musician did not sing.

A South African loved books. An American was a woman

and needed help. Are Americans the same as incubators.

But this is the rest of the story. He became an authority. 

ABSENT STUDENTS

Dear Students,
I have been told today that if a student misses 15 hours class, he or she will not be able to attend the exams. So please be careful and attend the lectures.
best gh

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