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Critical Storytelling in Urban Education
Critical Storytelling in Urban Education shares poems and stories written by college students attending Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
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Critical storytelling in urban education
\"Critical Storytelling in Urban Education shares poems and stories written by college students attending Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. The poets and storytellers in this gripping volume address challenges they have faced, issues of sexual abuse, racial politics, cultural identity, stigmatization of marginalized communities, immigration, and other forms of struggle within and outside of urban educational settings. They are students in Education, Communication Studies, Business, and English, among other disciplines. Academic writing has been frequently reserved to professors and doctoral students. This collection is different in that the writing of undergraduate and master students is featured. In a world of unrest, strife, and division, critical stories are sacrosanct\"-- Provided by publisher.
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THE VERSE BIOGRAPHY: INTRODUCTION
While the verse novel is now established as a literary genre, the verse biography has not been similarly acknowledged, even though many of the formal tensions and strategies are similar. Recognizing that the work of \"life writing\" that such texts perform, and the relationship between historical fact and poetic representation that they negotiate, are distinct to the verse biography, this Special Issue opens up the genre as a field of study, within the context of biography and life writing studies more generally.
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Maya's song
\"This unforgettable picture book introduces young readers to the life and work of Maya Angelou, whose words have uplifted and inspired generations of readers. The author of the celebrated autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya was the first Black person and first woman to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration, and her influence echoes through culture and history. She was also the first Black woman to appear on the United States quarter. Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson uses Angelou's beloved medium of poetry to lyrically chronicle her rich life in a deeply moving narrative. Vivid and striking collage art by Caldecott Honor recipient and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Bryan Collier completes this unforgettable portrait of one of the most important American artists in history.\"-- Publisher marketing.
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EXPERIMENTS IN POETIC BIOGRAPHY: FEMINIST THREADS IN CONTEMPORARY LONG FORM POETRY
This essay examines long poems by contemporary women poets that represent examples of \"poetic biography,\" to consider the diversity of ways in which feminist poets are writing/documenting the lives of historical figures. I am chiefly concerned with investigating the potential for poetry to expand the field of biographical writing in relation to the female historical voice (as both the writer and the written).
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THE MASTER AND THE MASK: FRANCIS WEBB'S VERSE BIOGRAPHY
Upon his death in 1973, Francis Webb was eulogized by a young Les Murray as \"a master of last lines, of last stanzas and final phrases.\" Shortly after his first collection, A Drum for Ben Boyd (1948), Webb experienced his first bouts of mental illness which, while limiting his freedom, also led to a series of extraordinary verse biographies of the saintly, the tyrannical, the artistic and the institutionalized which few Australian poets have been able to match.
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\TALK (WHY?) WITH MUTE ASH\: ANNE CARSON'S \NOX\ AS THERAPEUTIC BIOGRAPHY
This essay reads Anne Carson's Nox as a work of therapeutic biography. An analysis of Carson's iterative translation of Catullus's poem 101, and her visual and textual strategies of fragmentation, bring the author's search to understand her estranged brother into complex relation with an ethos of mystery and lament.
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\AUTOMYTHOGRAPHY\ IN POETRY: TUSIATA AVIA'S \BLOODCLOT\
What effect can poetry have on the composition of an autobiographical narrative? This essay seeks to shed light on the relationship between narrative and formal aspects of poetry through an analysis of a text that is at once poetry, narrative, and autobiography. Tusiata Avia's Bloodclot straddles mythology and autobiography, merging the legend of the Samoan goddess of war Nafanua with the author's own life. In considering how poetry is used to convey this double narrative, I argue that in Bloodclot segmentation through verse form is highly conducive to the articulation of narrative, both autobiographical and mythological.
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HII-STORIES AND HAA-STORIES: POLYNESIAN POETICS AS COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHY
This essay examines indigenous markers which appear in closely read texts by a number of New Zealand Māori poets as carvings, genealogies, large and small narratives revealing in some way the cultural life-worlds of the writers. One claim is that collective biography is a traceable essence in the poetry.
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