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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Expressing a Culture in the Context of Another Culture in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 7 years ago
(Similar to Chloe, I had trouble finding information about the cultural essay – all there seems to be is a short blurb on personal cultural criticism that Chloe used in her blog post already. But I think she did a […]
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Simone Louie commented on the post, On Feeling, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Thanks for sharing, Emily, I really enjoyed Lorde’s essay! Especially the idea of there not being new ideas but only new ways of making them felt.
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Love Poem by Susan Wheeler in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months ago
I wanted to share this haunting poem by Susan Wheeler. It reminded me of the negative capability we talked about in class – listening to the unspoken parts of the poem. The broken, haunting past of the narrator […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Hiding Behind a Private Language in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
I’ve found out that when I write or sing in a language that I know other people cannot understand, I feel more secure. It comforts me to know that I am the only one who has access to the words, at least in most […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Paradoxes in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
Ugly Perfection vs. Beautiful Ugliness: Think of an image or incident where there is artificial/empty/superficial beauty, and think of an image or incident where there is a raw beauty that comes from something […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post In Response to Carolina and Amanda in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
I love Carolina’s question: what kind of poet do we want do be? For me, another way to word it would be “what do we want out poems to do, and what kind of relationship do we want to have with our poems?” […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Truth and Emotion in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 6 months ago
Something about what philosophers in our readings have been saying is bothering me – they seem to think reason and emotion are two opposites, that the truth is independent of emotions, that having your emotions […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Does the Poet or Reader Make the Poem? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 6 months ago
The first thing that pops up when I google “how to write a poem” is Poetry Writing: 10 Tips on How to Write a Poem. Here is an excerpt from the website:
If you are writing a poem because you want to capture a […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Bridge to Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 7 months ago
This post is me trying to figure out where the disconnect between me and poetry is. Or where the connection is, because there must be one…right?
I appreciate how creative and aesthetic poetry can be, but so […]
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Simone Louie commented on the post, Where Do You Get Your Inspiration From?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 7 months ago
I think I get my inspiration from things that trouble me – personal convictions about my pride and selfishness, children and refugees in war, being away from home, sharing a friend’s burden, seeing the struggles […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Poetry – a Foreign Language in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 8 months ago
Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause.
Naturally, your rhythmic structure should not destroy the shape of your words, or their natural […]
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Simone Louie joined the group The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 8 months ago
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Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text 8 years, 11 months ago
In Chapter 5 of Moran’s Interdisciplinarity, there is a section called Geography as Text that talks about how the representation of geography can be used to manipulate or form people’s perception of geography or […]
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Simone Louie commented on the post, Knowledge & Power, on the site Reader and Text 9 years ago
Knowledge and power are definitely important for a leader in society as both are needed to make an effective leader, but with knowledge and power also comes responsibility, and a leader always has the […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 9 years ago
“Where is the line between art and literature/creative nonfiction?”
All literature is art, but not all art is in the form of literature.
All creative nonfiction is art, but not all creative nonfiction has to […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 9 years ago
The more I think about it, the more I do not comprehend how some people can believe that there is no absolute truth.
There are subjective truths–beliefs that hold true to any individual.
There are objective […]
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Simone Louie commented on the post, Frow and the Question of Writing Up and Down, on the site Reader and Text 9 years, 1 month ago
It’s interesting how you pointed out the “talking up/down” relationship between the author and the reader. I think I’ve found a new tension between the author and the reader; it’s almost like a war of who has the […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 9 years, 1 month ago
To be honest, after reading Lauren Slater’s Lying, I don’t think there will be another piece of self-called creative nonfiction work that I will consider fiction just because the author adjusts the way he/she […]
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Simone Louie commented on the post, Social Hierarchies and “Marrying Absurd”, on the site Reader and Text 9 years, 1 month ago
That’s very true, the social hierarchies we put ourselves into definitely affect the way we interpret text. Do you think there are interpretations that are “more correct” though? And if so, what makes an […]
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Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 9 years, 1 month ago
When an author admits to exaggerating and lying in her own memoir, can his or her memoir still be considered nonfiction? In the book Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater talks about her own emotions and thoughts […]
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