The assignment instead off class!!!!!

Tisa Bryant "Unexplained Presence"

Tells a story of how people perceive the world in their own eyes. How do things really look.?

Some people can tell others secrets without evening having conversations with those people. they just have that special ability to read people. Her pieces tell about how their are differences between the maker and the reader and how everything is perceived. She uses Toni Morrison's " Playing in the Dark" to compare her views on how she feels. She is basically describing something known as the black presence. Which means they aren't acknowledged anywhere that they go. There's various I guess you would say short stories on these black presences and they are unexplained to what their purpose is or who they are. Basically meaning these people are seen as nobodies in some peoples eyes. The real story behind it is this is how the white people looked at blacks. the seen them as nothing but a black presence, they had no purpose but to do as their "maker" told them to do. This was a very long piece that had multiple stories and even a couple of short poems. these pieces basically told the story of the non-existence of the  black presence.

"The Black Automation" Douglas Kearney 

This piece was full of poems that all started off talking about a lion and each one had a different color lion. 

They were Blue, Green, Black, Red and Yellow, and these were letters to these lions that people wrote. They looked like little short poems, but they were letters talking about something and then there were replies to these letters. Each letter describes someone different in each, no two are the same. they have repetitive statements or rhetorical questions as well that didn't need an answer from the audience because they were being asked no wanting an answer because the person answered them-self.  It began with a story about the radio and the went on to tell about an lullaby for a baby. This writer was telling the life of blacks and what they did do and how they were people just like whites and how they were capable of doing all the same things. even though they had struggles they still made a living doing whatever necessary, they were no longer that black presence they were that colored lion.

This blog is on the book Juice and how i fell about  it. My first impression if it is that I can deal with reading  it. At first I was hesitant and didn't really know where this book was taking me. but after reading some more of the stories i actually could picture what was going on and making the book come alive with vivid with every word that Renee Gladman put on the page. I really liked reading this story that I portrayed as the life of a squirrel on page 14-15. I thought about humans at first and then my thoughts went to squirrels. I feel as if she was trying to tell a story what her story was I don't know or even understand but whoever can read her piece of art and figure it out. they are grand.   

  

The readings by Burroway, Lamott and Goldberg were  kind of confusing and made you think about what is it that the author wants us to get out of this??!! The pictures helped the reader kind of get an understanding and put the words to it and make their own meaning to whats going on. More on the book Juice i felt as if she was telling something about a love story and she had so many things to tell about it. one thing that is a readers beware is to never judge a book by its cover. when i looked at it i was like uumm OK?? whats this going to be about. there's a telephone poll on it and what seems to be a land and yea just doesn't seem like an interesting piece of book but once you start reading it it kind of gets you attention and you find yourself still flipping the pages and getting involved.