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.

                  



          This is my blog post on how i felt about the book "City Eclogue" and my opinion on the authors poems.

 One thing that I noticed about these poems is that they have breaks in them. I don't understand. Maybe its for the reader to see that this is where the author is giving emphasis to something or starting on a new or different idea. i just really don't know but it makes it confusing to read. There is also parts in the poems where the author did not finish the words or sentences. which leaves the reader wondering what the author was going to say next or what word they were trying to say. Some of the poems are telling a story of the hard times people are having. Taking place in the Harlem streets and many other places.

             This can also lead readers think that the author is illiterate and does not know how to spell or write completely. But yet it gives it a little bit of mystery and not be dull and bland like how other authors do their work. ever poet is different sand has their own way of creating poems and telling their stories through them. I'm definitely not good at deciphering what poems are about so most of these poems are just here for my enjoyment to read and wonder and ponder upon what the author is trying to get me to realize or understand from the poem. A lot of the poems had to do with scenery and gardens and flowers and stuff like that. 

    There are poems where the places are compared to other things that are like the complete opposite of what is being talked about.While reading these poems i had one poem that caught my attention  in doing so as i was going through each page. For example in the one poem called the distant stars as paparazzi. The poem describes the news to a bird and flying. i dont understand it that much to be honest but it was one that caught my attention. 

      

  The  poem packet is seriously a piece of art. There's  so many poems. Even though a lot of them I don't quite understand. I have put some thought into some that caught my attention. Poems are a way that artists decide to express themselves. Just like movies and drawings and all the other creative things that others  do to express their own selves. I'm not good at creating poems but I do believe that this class will help me in some way. 

   Some sonnets had a structure to them that was pretty neat. In Shakespeare's sonnets he used an iambic pentameter. It goes A B A B C D C D E F E F G G; where every A rhymes with every A, every B with every B and so on from there.  Its actually very interesting. I used this technique when creating my own sonnet for class. The second one I'm still working on. I might decide to use Berrigan's style of writing sonnets because his way was very different as well. it was kind of all over the place. You can see that him and Shakespeare has different views but are both great artists.

In class we compared how the two poets work and looked for similarities in their work. We compared sonnet 116 from Shakespeare  and  sonnet XVI and we saw how they both used the same sound end words in their sonnets. But there was a difference Shakespeare used different rhyming words while Berrigan used the exact same words in each ending while still using the A B A....format. One of the poems that I liked which was by Harryette  Mullen called Dream Cycle, you would think that it was about this person actually being at the ice-cream  truck getting ready to order some ice cream but they were really having a dream. this poem reminds me of me. When I really want something I dream of it and once I awake and realize it was only a dream I sigh and try to go back to sleep:(

 My name is La'De'Shanae Smith and I am from Cleveland and this is my first year at Eastern. I came here on a academic scholarship. My major is in nursing and I want to take care of the whole world if it was possible. I am not really a creative writer that much so I am a little scared for this class. I will have to let my mind explore and see what pops out.