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“Poetry Is Not a Luxury”

  • Audre Lorde

  • 1985

  • poetry is a “skeleton architecture” of human life

  • tool for women to build courage, “naming the nameless” and allows individuals to articulate suppressed feelings

  • resisting oppression

  • poetry turns feelings and language into tangible, revolutionary action


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“Someone is Writing a Poem”

  • Adrienne Rich

  • 1993

  • reader is an active participant, poem is “exchange of electrical currents through language”; requires reads to absorb and interpret work

  • “visual fury” of sound and image; it transforms horrifying political and destructive realities

  • intimacy of poetry vs mass modern political culture


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“Art as Device: Theory of Prose”

  • Viktor Shklovsky

  • 1925

  • defamiliarization; function of art is to “make strange” the familiar

  • art is defined by the technical devices that is used to construct the work

  • art is meant to “feel things, to make the stone stony.”

  • art is meant to focus on making see things rather than recognize them; recover the sensation of life; reject numbness

  • “Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war.”


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“How Alienation Became My Superpower”

  • Elisa Gonzalez

  • 2021

  • double meaning of estrangement—intense emotional pain and familiar estrangement can be repurposed into a sense of wonder and awareness of your surroundings

  • feeling like an outsider forces you to constantly observe surroundings

  • emotional dissonance converts to heightened empathy for outsiders


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“The Beauty of Miscellaneous Things”

  • Soetsu Yanagi

  • 1926

  • the power of utility and the beauty of everyday objects

  • everyday use of objects grows deeper character and beauty

  • critique of mass production (industrial made goods)


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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

  • Tiya Miles

  • 2021

  • using sack as an archive to reconstruct history and tradition

  • generational power of women of color under slavery, passed down love and resilience

  • power of everyday objects as historical archives


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Worstward Ho

  • Samuel Beckett

  • 1983

  • human aspect of failure; we’re bound to fail no matter how hard we try

  • “ever tried. ever failed. no matter. try again. fail again. fail better.”

  • strip away language and meaning until nothing is left

  • language used to distort reality