9/30

In Hazel Smith's writing experiment chapter 3, i liked some of the techniques that i had never thought to try before in order to write in new creative styles or to stimulate my brain and, figuratively, "get the juices flowing" (for lack of a better phrase). I especially found the second method of variation, that Smith uses, to be quite interesting. However, several of his methods, and this applies to most of the methods of Harriette Mullen, seemed very remedial; repetition, for example, is not typically considered a unique or even difficult concept. Rather, it is used often throughout all types of literature.

9/30

I liked in Smith's intro of the chapter that she talked about music. I didn't quite think that poetry could do the same things (i.e. repetition). Example 3.8 was particularly interesting to me; it reminded me of Greek plays where the chorus would chant lines. So that had a somewhat musical quality to me. Also, for 3.8, I liked that some of the lines would change the implications of the lines that had come before it.

I also had an issue with opening Stein.

Sleeping With the Dictionary was interesting. The way she connected similar sounds and words was cool. The words were also (occasionally) connected in themes.

9.30 response

The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith was quite interesting. I am very drawn to things that have sound structures and to things or objects that have symmetry. When something is slightly askew, it often bothers me. The different ways suggested to structure writing was something that sparked my interest. I’ve done a few of these exercises in the past, but never knew that this was an actual thing (for lack of better words). Funny enough, the same thing with the exquisite corpse exercise, I always thought it was a fun game I used to play with my friends, but I had no idea that it was an actual technique. Back to this reading, I found example 3.8 to be the most pleasing out of the ones listed.



As for Gertrude Stien, I was unable to open the link to read.



Reading Sleeping with the Dictionary made me feel like I was 10 years old, watching Nick Jr with Mr. Face. I didn’t much care for it. Maybe in moderation I could care?

Playing with Sound

This was probably my favorite excersice that we had to do so far for this course. At first I didn't understand what the assignment was as far as writing our own piece, but after reading the packets about how the author's came up with their writings, it made the whole assignment easy to understand and quite fun actually. Once you figured out your method of writing, and what approach you were going to take within the poem, the words kind of just rolled off of your tongue. I guess that is kind of the point of learning these new strategies for writing.

Rousselian Evolution Exercise

Into the dark we moved; our torches fading, and spirits diminished.
They lost their color when the light dissapated at dusk.
Their faces turned pale as they lost the fight withing them that night.

Reading for 9/30

Hazel Smith chapter three, "Working out with structures" accomplished a lot of clarity on structures for creating writing. I found all the structures useful in my own writing. Often I'm drawn to the same style in which I write, and the six different examples of structure are just great starting points on a new spin for my own work. Some I often use but didn't maybe realize.
Harriett Mullen's "Sleeping with the dictionary was pretty interesting to watch unfold. I enjoyed reading it much like I enjoyed our assignment which was similar. Some of the words and equation of words that you come up with are just ridiculous but completely a new thought, making the line more interesting.
I was unable to read Gertrude Stein's "tender buttons." I too had an issue reading these documents on D2L.

9/30 Readings

Hazel Smith
This text focused on structure. He covered a wide rang of structural principles. Linearity is a structural principle which is stated by Smith as the simplest form of structure. It compromises a series of events or ideas. Repetition is another structural principle discussed by Smith in which the writer circles around an idea rather than advancing through it. Another structural principle that Smith describes is variation. Variation is closely related to repetition. The words of the text are based on the same idea or technique. Simultaneity structure as described by Smith is a kind of structure that allows several things to happen at once, like a number of people talking at the same time. Multilarying is a structure in which different kinds of textual material alternate and recur. The structural principle that Smith describes is numbering. Numerical structures are built on arithmetical count or limit.

Gertrude Stein
His writings emphasize on the sound and rhythms or the text rather than the sense of the words. Some of his writings were extremely enjoyable. In the section titled the room I really enjoyed the lines that began with, sugar any sugar, anger very anger, lover sermon lover.... and left over to be a lamp light, left over in victory, left over in saving... In this text though you can't truly understand the meaning it is simple to catch the beat and understand the rhythm of his writing. The way in which writers write play a major role in how successful their writings will turn out.

Harriette Mullen (Sleeping with the Dictionary)
This excerpt was very enjoyable. Mullen did an excellent job in giving sort of human qualities to a dictionary and the way a dictionary is used. From the title to the last line of the excerpt her method of writing was known, understood and expressed extremely well. You really get the felling that Mullen is actually getting the dictionary and laying down to go to sleep with it.

Gertrude Stein Reading 10/1

Up to this point some of the various types of "creative writing" have in some sense, not been creative enough for me. After reading the history of Gertrude Stein and her style of writing, I have to agree that she exhibits a style of creative writing. Personally, any writing that is able to take a certain word or phrase and turn it into a single sense or feeling has grounding for creativity. Stein's work is something that makes you wonder and gives you the ability to interpret in a variety of different ways.

Mullens Reading

I enjoyed Harriet Mullens reading the best and Ienjoyed the playing sound. It was fun to do and and I read the others playing with sound post and enjoyed them. This ready was very interesting which made the execercise we had to do quite easy.

Gertrude Stein

I've honestly never been a fan of Gertrude Stein's work so I never really bothered to learn much about her or read much more of her stuff. I have to admit that after reading more of her work with the knowledge that she was so far ahead of her time, I was interested. I'm not saying that I necessarily like her any more than I did before but I can certainly respect the fact that she was truly a pioneer of poetry. She IS a master of pairing words based on their sounds and rythyms but I still have a hard time making heads or tales of where she's trying to take her readers.

Reading for 9/30

This chapter of Hazel Smith's The Writing Experiment provided helpful methods for structuring writing, and therefore preventing monotony and predictability. I enjoyed the method of simultaneity because it gives options as to how to read the text and thus produces different outcomes. I also appreciated the recognition of normal pieces of writing, such as tourist brochures or website advertisements, as satirical opportunities. Furthermore, the rearranging and reconstruction of a piece of writing is near limitless and produces countless opportunities for the formation of new pieces.

I did find parts of Sleeping with the Dictionary to be rather abstract; however, I did appreciate Any Lit which plays with sound as we were assigned to do for next class. I also enjoyed Coo/Slur due to Mullen's ability to convey color words by combining other words of no association; I found it to be quite creative. I did not totally understand what Mullen was aiming for in Elliptical. I thought the concept of simply combining only the beginnings of phrases was interesting; still, I am unsure as to whether it is successful or not. It did cause me as the reader to finish the phrases on my own which did create interesting results on my part. I, therefore, conclude that Elliptical is only as successful as the reader makes it.

The link to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons appeared broken; therefore, I could not access that reading.

Exercise in Rousselian Evolution

It had been a long while since I visited the grave of my slaughtered son.

A long time had passed since I went to the place where the sun used to exist.

Years went, till cookie monster addressed his obsession behind his blue exterior.

Locus Solus

Even knowing the method in which Locus Solus was written, I found it very dry and hard to read. Not hard to read as in challenging but it just didn't grab me at all. I think the method is interesting and could lead to a good outcome but it just didn't work for me.

Exquisite corpse

The Green Eyed Monster

As though a soft rain were pelting my windows
The clock ticks laboriously in the corner
She killed him. The gun was in her hand. Yet she looked surprised.
DEATH
Beyond the shiny sun which flatters
Kindness guides your mind
I took the road traveled more than any other

9/28 Response

Although Raymound Roussel's method creates unique sentences by using various meanings, I'm not so sure that the tedious nature of the process is worth the return. It is plausible to find meaning in a newly created line through this method, but even so, I really don't see the point. This process is no better than throwing a bunch of words that you read, hear, or just pop into your head. Rather, although it is mildly interesting by creating the word association, it is just more time consuming and tedious than is necessary; there are a lot more effective ways to create "uncreative" writing. Similarly, Hazel Smith's writing experiment notes some methods that are also less effective than ones we have used in class before. We have seen dissociation countless times through virtually all of the work we have done thus far; random phrases or sets of words that have little to do with one another (and sometimes can even contradict one another), are seen throughout. I find it intriguing that people have created these backwards methods and processes that we can accidentally get all of these methods just through our transcryption or encryption assignments.

Roussel Response

I like his method of mapping out words into a sort of word tree; finding things that are associated with a certain word and exploring them til they're exhausted. Even while he was talking about his methods, though, it got pretty dense. In the sections of his book, I was in a little over my head. The beginning started out pretty interesting; by the time he started elaborating stories behind other things, I got a little bored. I'm sure if I had more time to devote to reading it, I'd like it more. The vocabulary used is not terribly dense but I definitely wouldn't consider it to be light reading. From Hazel Smith, I learned a few new processes that I would be willing to try in my own writing, even if I'd only scrap them later. Looser things like playing with language seems like a good way to find new ways of writing as well.

Exquisite Corpse

A Kitten Sleeps

They had greasy fingers and dirty hair
Dreaming dilapidated dreams
What if I am not the hero? What if I am the bad guy?
Christmas smells of ornaments and presents
I take off my glasses and wipe the lenses with my shirt
Whispering sweet nothings in my ear
dandelions turn my fingertips yellow

A new way to break the writer's block

Hazel Smith's exercises in word and phrase manipulation were foreign concepts to me. I, like countless other writers have experienced serious blocks. Until now my only cure was to put down the work and focus on something else. This, however, never worked perfectly as I would constantly ruminate on the block even if I was engaged in some other activity. Smith's exercises have given me hope that the next time I simply cannot move forward in writing I can use these techniques and actively but passively get past whatever was holding me back. These exercises differ immensely from Raymound Rousel's technique in that Smith's method is more of a mindless exercise designed to stimulate the thought process using words as a catalyst. Rousel's method is almost scientific in nature and requires a greater knowledge of vocabulary. I am interested in his method and it has created some incredibly interesting work but I can see it taking a writer years to perfect and maybe even longer to get a successful longer piece of work to emerge. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of Locus Solus as I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. One last thing... It took me a while to fully understand Rousel's method as words and their meanings translate sometimes oddly from French. It would be interesting to see a successful English speaking author use this method so the final piece wouldn't be garbled through translation.

9/28 Response

After reading over Raymound Roussel’s “How I Wrote Certain of My Books”, it makes you understand his method a bit clearer. He is right to say that without giving a clear direction, some may not be able to exploit his work. I believe Roussel’s version of creative writing is what I would’ve come to expect. To the average person it may seem strange taking a word and creating another, but to the creative writer, it is simply unique and creative in itself. I like the aspect of branching off from a single word. It’s almost obvious that there is a hidden message in his works.

My Life as a Cheerio

A day like no other day
I can feel the grip of time choking and pulling the life from me
Stained glass ceilings cast a dark shadow
Shining through the open window
One perfect snowflake in the storm
Each finger grasping a different straw
Everything is borrowed; coming with nothing, leaving with nothing - what is this all worth?

Exquisite Corpse Poem

Title: I Love You!

I carry you heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
But sort what light through younder window breaks
Bird of prey, flying high
Effortlessly balanced upon my nose
I see what your writing
Her gaze is always set that far ahead and that
I wonder what's next.

9/28 response

I did not find The Writing Experement extermly interasting to read. But at the same time it gave me a better understanding of the idea of playing with the language. I think some of the stratgies would be a great way to start a piece of text. My favorite of these is the use of leapfrog.
The reading by Raymound Roussel Locus Solus was closer to what I had orginally expected when I thought of creative writing.

September 28th reading response

In Raymound Roussel’s “How I wrote certain of my books,” he explains the method behind much of his early work. I found his methods interesting. He Builds sentences or ideas for his pieces through taking words that sound alike and adding similar words with capabilities of two meanings. And that’s just the beginning stages. As he continued to elaborate on these other stages, I began to lose interest. I appreciated that he expressed that many of his ideas were from observations in other things such as art. Roussel lists many of the places he’s been to and says that these places never had an influence on his books. Personally, no one is to really know if that is true, and mentioning it just seemed haughty to me. However, his theories and methods on manipulating language were pretty interesting.
While reading part I of Locus Solus, I was initial enticed by the set up of the story. However, as it carried on I lost interest a bit. I started to feel it was getting a little muddled. It started off as a very intelligent man dedicated to his work, giving his closest friends a tour of his amazing villa and work laboratories. He starts describing his guest and begins telling a story of one of his guests’ studies on an Arab theologian. I guess, I felt much of it was random, however still understandable as far as plot goes. The language was entertaining and different to read.
Hazel Smith shows a similar idea in “Playing with Language, running with referents.” Through multiple exercises, she explores the possibility of word manipulation through techniques such as association by sounds or meaning, dissociation, leapfrogging, and mixing those strategies. I can see how much of this is useful to any writer, constantly encouraging new thought for language and new spins on words and their meaning.

September 28 Reading Response

In Raymound Roussel’s How I Wrote Certain of My Books uses a variety of styles and techniques to improve the readers writing through many and strategies used by Roussel to write his book. I think he does it in a interesting style because rather than give you steps, its like he is having a one on one conversation with the reader. Usually most of techniques consist of picking one word and expanding, for example, if you start with the word marine, it can lead you to navy blue, and make a sentence like, “hence the accident which befell Nina when she was wearing her navy blue frock. The first two sections of Locus Solus also written by Roussel seemed to go into different things but it seems for no reason and had a weak plot which was hard to understand. While Hazel Smith shows the limitless ways of how to write in Creative Writing. She emphizes the importance of exercise and self expression through extensive practice to be good at Creative Writing.

Exquisite Corpse Poem

A day of Impossibilites

Laughter, pure resnating off the playground yard
While peet bogs begin to hide
Shaking the gournd like a rumbling earthquakek
The need for coffee in the morning
As honey pows from the horses missing eye
Cheap plastic. Definition of worth. Who decides the value of the people?
The beer is frozen, and I cannot drink
How unusually strong I feel today.

Exquisite Corpse poem

The Day

As I gazed into my lover's eyes

And this is how it is- this is what it feels like to trust

Her sock smelled like vanilla

Feeling so lovely, from toe to toe

Lovely thoughts linger your bedside

I like the smell of oranges in the summer

Orchids are pink when I think of you

I would give anything to be anywhere else

Reading for 9/28

            I found the two sections of Locus Solus to be incredibly intriguing due to the complexity and the way Roussel went about writing them. However, even after reading  “How I Wrote Certain of My Books” in which Roussel describes his method, I still had a difficult time completely understanding what he was working to achieve. Locus Solus does seem incredibly well constructed, and I hope for further discussion on the method so that I may better understand the sections.

            I enjoyed reading Hazel Smith’s The Writing Experiment. She introduced a lot of useful methods, such as leap-frogging, substitution, word pools, etc., that help in defeating writers blocks and creating less cliché writing. I did do some of the exercises while reading and found satisfaction with the abstract results. For example, this is the end product, or I should say potential for a new work, of the leapfrogging exercise.

True love

Love him

Him her

Her waist

Waist (waste) time

Time flies

Exquisite Corpse Poem

My Angelic loving friend
Life is short, live, love, laugh
Roses are red, Violets are blue
Buy pink foil for the pink dolls too
I went to church today
I like to play basketball

Roussel and Smith Reading

I found it hard to understand How I Wrote Certain Of My Books author Raymound Roussel was trying to get across compared to Hazel Smith’s article. I could better understand Hazel Smith’s playing around with words. She states in the beginning of the Chapter first page that this chapter wants one to play around with language and get ideas by manipulating words. She basically is stating that you don’t need to know right away what you want to write about but if you play with language and words it will come to you. But with Roussel’s reading it was over my head, I don’t know what he was trying to say about writing. Hazel Smith used some great examples in her reading especially on page 6, example 1.1 Association by sound and page 7, example 1.3, Dissociation.and on same page, example 1.4, Leapfrogging examples such as: greenpeace, peace talk, talkback, backdrop. So I found her reading easy to understand and what she was implying as a creative tool to writing.

Exquisite Corpse Poem

Life Overwhelmed

Roses are red
Running south the client tripped
Gently expanding in size as I absorb my surroundings
Leaves scatter like birds in the sky
The drop hit the floor, its radiance shattered
A Grid of possibilities
While going through the willows

folded poems

The Doughboy's Entrails

Sitting at my desk I gaze outside
We drive our ships to new lands fight
Counting down to the day it will be better
Everything's not always windex clear, Mr. Clean!
As soon as the bell rang they died
I'm on the edge, slowly falling foreward. Won't you catch me?
That shall disappear into the abyss forever

The Dream

The sun doth melt the snow
His clown nose and makeup do not disguise him
These are not my words
We are your overlords

Every little noise, movement. Irritating now!
Blue and red makes purple right...?
Everyone panicked and died
There is a flood of ignorance. Be still. Be calm.

Exquisite Corpse Poem

Last Saturday Morning
Roses are red violets are blue.
Softly as the wind brushes the leaves in the fall
I am impatient for it.
Fold me over and change my subject
I remain superimposed upon the projected screen
Rass it on, Pass it on, Pass it on
Rome, if you want to. Hello.

Exquisite Corpse

This poem will have one less line then the others.

I am not line 2 of a poem

No dolphins drench my dramatic dreams

Her, There, in the blue shirt

with the assigned glaze of state pearsw

It goes on & on. Neverending chaaos.

Exquisite Corpse

The Green Machine

This day keeps getting longer, stronger.
I'm livin' one hell of a life...
Eating cheese and singing songs.
And what's this? A foreign, shining God from above.
The preacher raises his hands to say,
I am lost, but not fallen.
Carte blanche.

The Sonnets / Elsewhere No.2

In all, the Sonnets were a little difficult though I would say they are creative. To work within a structure, such as a sonnet, can be difficult. But Berrigan also takes some free license by altering the patterns of text, and sometimes not following a sonnet form at all. In all, the collection of sonnets and poems gives an artistic view of a timeline that a historical novel could not.

Elsewhere No.2 was confusing to read, as many have already mentioned. However, the found text from Gordon is interesting to be viewed as Sullivan shows us. As almost everyone does, I imagine stories as I read them and Elsewhere No.2 takes away the imagination from us.

Second half of The Sonnets/Elsewhere No. 2

I definitely enjoyed the second half of The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan more than the first half. I feel as if the second half had a lot more of a play on words and had a more diverse usage of words as well. Once again, I enjoy how he took everyday normal things and turned them into a fantastic piece of literature that kept the reader enthused. Another thing that I like about Berrigan is that even though he's taking these randomly assorted words and putting them back together in a distorted way, you can still feel the story behind it and feel the words. When I took a Major American Writers class my senior year of high school my English teacher explained to me in detail that one of the most important things about writing a particular piece is that the reader can actually feel it through the words rather than just seeing it. I found this to be a very important lesson and believe that Berrigan executes this very well. It's hard to make something out of really nothing and Berrigan really accomplished the purpose of his writing well.

The first thing that I noticed by far about Elsewhere No. 2 were the graphics. Even though they're in black and white they definitely stand out to the reader and help present the story more. Graphics in comics always help make the reading a little lighter, too. The words that Sullivan use also really make the story pop. Some words that really stood out to me were "groan", "diesel", "penetrates", etc. He doesn't at all really use any dull wording. The piece overall was funny and entertaining, but at some points I got a little lost. It just felt as if between the graphics and the wording that it was too much for me too handle but I the same time I still really enjoy reading it because it presented this little challenge. During the end it calmed down a lot more to almost a boring pace, but yet it still kept my attention because of all the busy-ness going on in the first half. My favorite part overall was Sullivan's interesting choice of words and how he put them all together. Whereas Berrigan's pieces seemed more structered this did and didn't at the same time just because of the nature of the literature.

Elsewhere 2

This was a very interesting little book. It was extremely confusing most of the time, but like the majority of the work that we've been doing in the class so far, I feel that if I can pick out a few things that I find interesting or humorous within the chaotic arrangement of words then the book as a whole wasn't too bad. I thought it was pretty funny when every once in a while within the text a few phrases or words would come together in an unusual way to make insane sentences. For example, I liked the part about electrical anyalysis of pistachios. Also, I thought it was kinda strange how certain phrases wound up together, like the part about pelvic exams pap smears and cold soda! That is just an odd combination of words. I did not understand how the pictures correlated with the text. I'm sure that there was no real correlation, but I tried to figure it out nonetheless. Some of the pictures were extremely weird! Overall, this book wasn't so bad. I read it more than once, and will probably read it again!

Sonnets-Second half

After reading through the rest of the sonnets, I have to say.....I didn't understand most of it. When I read a piece of poetry, I try to imagine and picture what the writer was trying to say, wheat he/she was feeling...and in all honesty I couldn't grasp a thing from hardly any of these pieces. Piece XXXVIII I actually got feeling out of. The lines flowed together and made sense. The narrator is describing the emotion, the way he/she feels like being "in the movie made ont eh site of Benedict Arnold's triumph. I get the feeling that it's about intimacy. Or possibly overcomming an obstacle in the relationship, perhaps an argument. The rest of the pieces, like LXXXI, don't make any sense. In the beginning it seems promising-"Musick strides through these poems/just as it strides through me!"- but then breaks off and falls off the deep end with " He is not "The Poems."/(my dream a drink with Lonnie Johnson we/discuss the code of the west)". Another thing I didn't get was the way that some sonnets seemed to cross over to the next page....or lines that seemed to continue into other poems...randomly. An example was XL and XLI. XL ends "My Aunt Annie and begin." and continues (seemingly) in XLI "banging around in a cigarette she isn't "in love"." You can tell because all the other pieces start with a capitol letter but those start off with a lower case letter. All in all I just didn't enjoy the readings. And to me, a successful poem is one that makes you think about what the writer is saying...these poems just made me wonder what the writer was on.

Berrigan 1+2 // Elsewhere No. 2

While reading the first half of The Sonnets, his use of imagery really stood out to me. Especially lines like this: "Time flies by like a great whale (XXXIV)," and "Her aimlessness is the pulse of the tree (XVII)." For a lot of the sonnets, the fragmentation and jumbling just made it really hard to read. To be honest, I didn't read much more into them after I skimmed/read once over. When the imagery, or placement of lines, did catch my eye, I tried to interpret what the poem might be saying. I also tried, a couple times, to imagine what the original poem looked like. Overall, I wasn't completely moved by it, but I would have to admit that's partly because I didn't spend much time with it. Also, the introduction was pretty cryptic, so I wasn't sure what I was in for. It did build up pretty well, though.

In the second half, the imagery still stood out for me. But one thing I didn't quite follow is the "storyline." All of a sudden sexual allusions are added and it's somewhat confusing. Then he jumps back to the second "In Joe Brainard's Collage," which I like better than the other one. LIX just flows better and makes a bit more sense. I was also waiting to see what lines would be repeated, as I also did while reading the first half. The imagery is so good, but the usual lack of readability gets in the way, more often than not, for me.

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The fact that the text and images were so diverse was pretty distracting. Despite that, though, I mostly enjoyed reading Elsewhere No. 2. The way the images flow makes me feel like a narrator is reading over a movie reel moving across town. That makes sense, though, since the notes were taken on a bus and what not. Some of the text also reminded me of our twitter poems, using a lot of found language. The images were pretty evocative and dimensional; I liked that aspect as well.

Elsewhere No. 2

Elsewhere No. 2 was a very odd piece of poetry/literature/comics… I liked the infusion of illustrations with the random(?) notes taken on a bus. The piece seems very fragmented both visually and in its wording. I can almost imagine myself riding a bus on Coney Island Avenue trying to take notes on what I see but being overtaken and overwhelmed with imagery and emotion. Surprisingly, I liked this. Continuing with Berrigan, however, on further reading, I still didn’t feel too much while reading his sonnets. There where a few that I really enjoyed however, like LXXIV. I loved the line, “But his rough woe slithers o’er the land.” It felt so real while I read it. That line almost perfectly sums up what I like about good poetry. I want it to feel real when I read it.

The Rest of The Sonnets/ Elsewhere No.2

The Sonnets

This writing to me has so much meaning. Each piece was created in some way, shape or form. What I like most about these writings is the language that Ted uses in these pieces. The writing is so powerful in some of the lines of the sonnets I found myself understanding what was going on just from a couple of lines because of his strong language. Though lots of the writings were still quite confusing I enjoyed reading them.



Elsewhere No.2

This writing was extremely confusing. I really didn't understand much of what I was reading as whole though small sections made some sense. Though the writing didn't make much sense to me I really enjoyed the method that was used to create this piece. I think some power things can happen when you mix two totally different writings like what was done in Elsewhere. I don't think you can always judge a piece on whether or not you actually understand the writings there is some much more to creative writing then getting the full meaning of the words on the page. Things like the method of writing and the sources used play the most important role in the success of a piece to me.

Elsewhere No. 2 and The Sonnets

  Though I did not fully understand it, I found Elsewhere No. 2 enjoyable to read; in fact, I read it multiple times. The idea of pairing found text with street signs is an interesting concept. It makes for a different experience due to the fact that the text is then put into a context. I really enjoyed pages 16 to 17 in the fact that Sullivan wrote very little, but the signs in themselves had to much to say. I was additionally surprised that even through the confusion and hectic collaboration, the ending was still conclusive. After reading through Elsewhere No. 2 once, I then went back and altered the way I read it to see if I could get a different outcome. For example, on pages such as 13 where there are two columns of photos and text, I would read all the text on the same line (similar to the Trans-cryption method), regardless of the text being in different boxes. The outcome was not that different, but more interesting combinations were made.

As for the remainder of The Sonnets, I enjoyed reading it as much as I did when I first picked it up. After understanding the method more, reading them made more sense. I have to say though, III is still my favorite by far.

The Sonnets Response 2

After finishing the rest of The Sonnets, I was able to get a better understanding of the methods used in writing, however, I am still not able to understand much of it. The sonnets included in the book don't call much attention to the point of standing out to me. Sonnet LXXX was the only sonnet that I had marked as significant. It struck me because of the lines repeating one another such as "Bearden is dead, Gallup is dead, Margie is dead." Following through later with "he shot me" helps paint a picture of what took place. Unless a reader sees lines such as these, the sonnet could almost be a waste of space. I personally don't understand the creativity that is suggested in these sonnets.

Recreated poems

Maybe I'm shunning myself
But don't give me grief
Coming and spewing from your hurts and your pains
But lash out and assign the blame
Your true attitude is only masked with perfume
Tell me what hole I've fallen into
But I don't like to waste my sarcasm
So don't give me grief
I wish I could tell you how good of you it is
Oh how nice of you to look down at me
So don't give me grief,
You've got nothing else better to do
Because I know it's right out of your gut
From you, from them, quite possibly myself



History is a pit
who drove themselves as through they were earthquakes
who had their portraits done alongside great, blue lakes
who blotted out the formation of estuaries
by savvy seductive little whores
the death of solemn forests
whores uproar drowns out
the presence of the sea
by the dusty, sullen peoples
who make you forget the splitting apart of plateaus
and residual mountains
by the sick to their stomachs
by orangutans in full-dress uniform
inhabited by pale looking guys

Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets was fairly interesting. Berrigan includes interesting pop culture references and intricate language to create visuals. I must admit that I did not like his method of shifting the placement of lines; this method made the sonnets all the more difficult to read and comprehend. It was especially difficult to understand Berrigan's writing in the introduction and I found it almost to be fairly annoying. I think it is a fair question to ask "Why distort and rearrange a good and previously comprehensible poem?" Although it was difficult at times, it somehow managed to make sense. Despite my disapproval of the method, it did intrigue me. The comparisons between the two sonnets was midly confusing; the "message" of each poem was different when I was expecting some more similarities.

The Sonnets

Okay, maybe my literary sensibilities are not very refined or maybe I'm not taking the right drugs. As much as I want to like these poems we're being introduced to I just cannot bring myself to enjoy them. Yes, some of them are definately written with skill and thoughtfullness and yes, some of them do make a little sense but the vast majority of them are clearly just a jumble of words on the page. Perhaps I'll never understand the meaning of Penn Station and perhaps I'm an idiot for that. I'm frustrated when I read these poems that the literary world has clearly labeled 'good' and I don't get a thing out of it. Ted Berrigan, based on the very few poems he hasn't jumbled, is a good writer. He uses words and phrasing very well and I can appreciate that but... I hope this little tirade doesn't effect my grade...

The Sonnets

The Sonnets were an interesting read. They were easy to read and to follow even thought they didn't make much sense. It was entertaining to try and figure out or imagine what was going on within the sonnets only to remember how they were composed and realize that there probably wasn't a meaning to them. The meaning is whatever the reader makes of it.

Ted Barrigan.

I thought Ted Barrigan's sonnets were very intriguing and fun to read. They take combine different concepts of creatively with basically a sort of stream of consciousness. Overall, I found the sonnets to be very entertaining to read and it was definitely interesting how you could take so many different ideas of everyday life and turn them into a work of prose or poetry. I also found the words that Barrigan used to really capture my attention on a whole. He doesn't use words that are quite too challenging but more or less, quirky and more upbeat to hold the reader's attention and captivate them to continue reading on. Also, as fun as the readings may seem many of them also make you think and activate your own mind quite a bit.

The Sonnets

I also enjoy reading the Sonnets. I really enjoy the way Barrington conveys a connection with the readers in a very unique way. This is by far the most interesting. It's basically just like what we were creating. When we were mixing up words and sentences from the newspaper articles, at times we were able to make funny/humorous phrases. That's what this almost sounds like. It's humorous and engages the reader.

sonnets

I enjoyed reading the sonnets by Ted Berrigan. It was the first reading of this class that I did not become extremely frustrated with. While reading the introduction I was able to understand how the sonnets were constructed. One thing I found extremely interesting was the idea that it was composed of moveable parts. That they are capable to stand alone and they can begin to way on your mind more with repetition. The one sonnet that I enjoyed out of all of them was II.

Twitter

Twitter I don't understand how to post to it it appears to be just What are doing question and following or having followers. I don't see a place to post the assigmnement on twitter.Twitter is confusing to me. The format of twitter is not user friendly.

Ted Berrigan Sonnets

Ted Berrigan’s Sonnet LIX was most appealing to me, since it mentioned Marilyn Monroe and the name was familiar and seem to make reference to Marilyn having died, in which she is dead and it was as if the poem was referring to her and a dead Doctor and how upset Joe Brainard was over this. That is my interpretation of this Sonnet. The other one was okay I couldn’t grasp any meaning from it, but I did notice almost towards the ending of both of the Sonnets the words I Love You. I didn’t see any significance for those words in Sonnet XXXV, but in LIX it made more since to have those words. I felt the I love You was referring to Marilyn Monroe, since she was a movie star loved by millions.

The Sonnets

After reading The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan, I had trouble understanding the point he was getting across since the poems were very different and reviewed it more. I think he took different parts and topics and mixed it together to prove a point. All poems have different kind of forms and have a meaning but I think the difficulty of this one was since every line was totally different than the other and it makes you try to figure out how one is related to the other. Overall I enjoyed reading the poems especially since the sonnets convey humor.

The Sonnets

I absolutely loved reading The Sonnets. It was honestly one of the first readings that I fully enjoyed. It was refreshing, thought provoking, and rich in emotion. I was already captivated by the first sonnet and found myself loving the third; I found it incredibly relatable. The process in itself was very intriguing. With his method of composition, Berrigan still successfully produces something new and moving.

The Sonnets

When reading the introduction to Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets, many statements about his work appealed to me. However, two in particular that tugged at me was “…to make a new statement about reality: the outcome or gist of something is in its midst not just as it ends…” and “...searching for something what looked unpredicted and what also meant something unpredicted but significant.” So much of what we’ve been doing in the last two weeks of class can somewhat be summarized to ME as just that. I really love the line that “the outcome or gist” is in the midst of the piece; there’s no forced conclusion. I also thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from the 140 character poems. At first bothered by the use of a twitter account, I was able to get past my silly prejudice and start to formulate my own method of recreating text into poetry.
With this awareness of Ted Berrigan’s writings, in XXXV you begin to see repeated lines that Alice Notely mentions in the intro. For example, “Go to the sea, the lake, the tree,” or “spins when the old bull rushes In comparing XXXV and LIX, Berrigan recycles lines like “I LOVE YOU” and “The black heart beside the fifteen pieces of glass” with a slight difference in fifteen being typed as “15” in XXXV. Each time, these lines seem to have new meaning, but also, mention by Notely, the lines can stand alone.
By taking pieces from authors he respected and studied, Berrigan still produces something new every time. In general, I love the idea of recycling to make something useful. But the ability to make a sonnet movable really interests me.

The Sonnets

The introduction of the Sonnets by Ted Berrigan, was very interesting with the poems being different from each other and being gridded into a fourteen-line structure. At first it was kind of boring to read, but then I got more intrigued by how the poems were composed of movable parts, each of what stands for a piece of information. I like how the Sonnets poems are just like Shakespeare's involving friendships, and triangular love relationships because those are the topics that I like to read about. Also what I enjoyed reading in the introduction is when it talked about how the Sonnets is not boring and it being musical and sexy and funny and having the sound of ordinary people being named in various moods. When I read the poem XXXV it was something that I enjoyed and it was so detail that I can picture it in my mind.

My Response

I find that Harry Matthews likes to keep the subject of his poems vague. This makes you have to assume a context for what he writes. You have to think, "What situation would this story fit into?" If you don't think that way at all, his poems do not make sense at all, though it's still hard for me to understand the significance when you put them into context.

MacLow is not a poet to me. I believe poetry has meaning. That's my opinion. Most of his poems look like stuff I'd type if I fell asleep on my keyboard and had a nightmare. Then he has some that quite obviously don't even follow basic sentence structure. He's written others that seem to take random sections of writings and censor them out like we did, but without leaving behind any sorts of ideas.

Reading Response

I feel the same as most on here do about the Mathews "Translation" piece. It is kind of a report and a paper that seems to try to persuade others on his point of translation from English to French. I'm not sure how I liked the proverbs section, but the paraphrase was quite interesting.

As for MacLows idea that art is initially and foremost about creating what is in the artists mind and bringing it to life, all other reasons are extra. Today, many people have concern with students going to school to learn art and become artists. Their concern is valid, "how can you make money doing this?" But according to MacLow, this is not a reason to create art.

Radios is a very creative piece, but any work created after this is not very creative. As we said in class, it becomes more of a formula and less unique as the pages go on and others may try to copy it.

Respones to readings

Harry Mathews
The first piece was informative but that was about it. To me it was like reading a history book in which the writer was trying to inform you of something while using a story from the past. Though his message on translation was extremely informative. I found his paraphrase & perverbs piece to be much more interesting. Each topic spoke on a different subject but yet they were all closely related. One section spoke on poodles and another on hounds. Then other sections brought food into play such as bread, eggs, and soup with people doing things such as stealing, eating, and sharing theses items.

Jackson MacLow
I found his method for which he created his writings to be extremely complicated yet very interesting, although I found no understanding or interest in the end result.

Ronald Johnson
I really liked this way of creating text. If you read it as thought it is all one flowing piece to the point where you're making yourself think that it makes sense you can actually get a poetic feeling as well as a defined message from the writings.

Tom Phillips
The way of forming the text was extremely similar to Ronald Johnson but adding the images to the text added more of a meaning to the writings and made the piece more interesting. If you see the word girl and a picture of a girl is with it you can get past the words and start to bring in emotions to relate to the writings.

Austin Kleon
Of all the readings to me this made more sense then others. It was as if he knew exactly what it is that he wanted to say and he found those words in the text and blacked out everything else to form one single thought from a page full of words. One of my favorites.

Mad Libs!? 9/15/09

Sexy. Sean Farris, I & I cupcakes.

Reading Response 9/16/09

I enjoyed Mathews, the Persevering Maltese: Translation and the Oulipo. Both of his essays made you think more into somethign that you normally would have never thought about. One of my favorites is the idea of once something is writen down it is no longer true. I like this idea but at the same time I do not completely understand it. Also in Harry Mathews, selected paraphrases and perverbs, I enjoyed how things seemed to have come together. Though they do not organinal go together they flow nice. I felt as if I was reading a persons journal that had pages that were missing.

My favorite out of all the readings that we have done is Tom Phillips. When I was reading it I was reminded in some parts of transcribing the newspaper becuase i was figuring out where everything was suppossed go.

Response to reading 9/16/09

Harry Mathews

Essay response

From Harry Mathews "Translation and the Oulipo," he writes about the differences in language and how words can be translated in many ways. I liked the example of the New Guinea tribes. Though living similar lives using similar speech, they say different things. The different ways to translate Racine's Phidre by the slightest letter made such a difference . My favorite thing Mathews says is once written down, "words are no longer true or untrue." As creative writers, I personally feel that is the greatest thing I can take away from this essay.


Poetry response

Maybe I didn't understand the point of most these poems, or maybe that's just it, there's no real point but I had a hard time getting any solid thing. Mathews does say once written down "words are no longer true or untrue." So maybe that is the real point. I'm not sure. However, I did have a favorite. "Cold Chicken for breakfast is not my custom, but I was damned if I would fight on an empty stomach."

Jackson MacLow

Essay response

In MacLow's "Poetry and Pleasure, art is described as having the desire to help slowly change or shift pain and suffering. I agree that certain art, including poetry, has the need to change and "prevent warfare and other causes of unnecessary suffering." Why do we write what we write? I mean, sometimes we want to inspire, may that be ourselves or others. But sometimes I feel that I need to create to just create. Not always am I concerned about shifting the pain and suffering in the world. Ultimately, I want the outcome to be positive, much how MacLow describes most artist that want to provoke change. But I have to admit, it's often for my own gain, positive or negative.


Ronald Johnson, Radios response

While reading these collections of poems, at first I started to wonder what this piece was originally about before Johnson did some re-creating. But after some time, I no longer looked at the space as missing words but part of the piece.


The Tom Phillips piece did not show up on PDF

Reading Responses 9/15/09

I really enjoyed the Harry Matthews article about that anything that can be said in English can be the same as said in French-vise versa. I like how the Uha's statement was "Here not there" meaning to me that always focus on where you are instead of thinking about the future. Another statement that I liked was from Botherby when he stated, "Yes, but we're all differnt"- Meaning to me that everyone is unique in their own way. While I was reading this article, what got my attention the most was: that facts are the score..not the game! and that facts are lies that belong to the past. I always try to put the past behind me and to just keep my mind on the future. About what's going on...right now...this moment. All of us, as writers are translators. Remember that truth begins when something real happens, and that a written word can NOT guantee what it saids, as in "I love you", or "pass the salt". We can only tell when something is real is when they say it to us.

In Jackson Maclow, "Poetry and Pleasure"

I really enjoyed what Jackson talked about as art is pleasure, and how (the pleasure of making art is experiencing it). I understand what he is talking about because I am an art student myself and creating art is seeing what media you can use to make the art different and stand out. To experience art to use paint and to splatter it all over yourself, or to draw with charcoal and get it all over your hands. Art is messy! but it's experiencing it is what makes it messy! To make artwork is to bring it into being, to make it come alive!

Lastly, when I read Ronald Johnson: Radi os poem, at first I didn't quiet understand it until a light bulb flashed into my mind and that is when I had the idea that Ronald was talking about heaven and the darkness of someone who is depressed. Or at least this is what I thought the poem was about in my own perspective. Overall, I thought this piece was very interesting!!

-Audge Renk

Response to readings: Sept 16th

Harry Matthews: The persevering maltese didn't interest me at all. When I was reading it, it felt like I was in history class for some reason. When they mentioned hunter gatherers that took me straight back to my Urban development class. I thought it was interesting how they tied tennis in there though.
In Harry Matthews poems, I really liked the Perverbs I (in random order) section the most. I thought it was really cool how they were all mixed randomly, and to me it seemed to still flow very well. I think it really interested me most when I read the, "the early bird gets the worm" because it was so familiar to me.

Jackson MacLow "poetry and pleasure"
I thought what he said made complete sense. He made the non educated reader think about art in a different light, and I thought his interpretation was very interesting. He mentions that what artwork makes is never predictable. Which, is something I never thought about.
Jackson MacLow poems: I thought these poems were very odd, and they reminded me a lot of two of the encryption assignments combined. I don't know why but the cut-up method and censored method reminded me a lot of the poems.

Ronald Johnson Radi Os
This was really creative to me. I never seen text written in this form before so I thought it was rare. The sentence: "At once to smallest forms their shapes intense, and far within, in their own dimensions. Silence, seemed so deep to me that the vision I got out of my head was those lines being read on stage with interpretive dance movement to go along with it.

For me as well, the Tom Philips, Austin Kleon, and the William S. Burrough did not open.

Reading Responses - September 16

The encryption section was very interesting and held me tightly to the readings. The first essay didn't strike me very strongly, however, I remember a specific quote from the essay on page 72 that said "fiction can be mildly described as outlandish." This is true, and moving towards Matthews paraphrases it is. I thought paraphrase one was the most striking. By reading the paraphrase you get a sense of exactly what is being done. Anytime I am able to imagine myself in a specific situation, I know a lot has been accomplished, these paraphrases do just that. By seeing the dog on the right side of each page kept making me wonder how to implement its context. That is, what I enjoy, using your own imagination to gather what the author may have be meaning.

Jackson MacLow's concept of poetry in terms of art in all his works leaves me wondering. Sometimes you wonder where his vision of art is supposed to take you. However, the segment on letters intrigued me.

The newspaper blackout poems were awesome. I have yet to find something as creative as this. Taking works from an article and mixing them up after blacking out a significant section of the article is interesting and can be fun. Much like the blackout section, Ronald Johnson's Radios is also extremely interesting. I would define these types of work as creative, and the main reason is because thinking goes into selecting the words to peace together. It may not be extremely difficult, but it does take time figuring out.

Responses to Reading for September 16th

I appreciated Harry Matthew’s playfulness with the English language; he takes the seriousness out of linguistics. The playfulness and underlying humor of Matthews’ paraphrases and perverbs was enjoyable to read. I liked that on page 104 he combined multiple phrases in different ways to alter their meaning and recognition. It was interesting to try to distinguish any meaning in the end statements after appearing to start out with the well-known proverb “The early bird gets the worm.”

Jackson MacLow provided an interesting insight into art. Is it art or is it a way of life? The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be deeply ingrained in us as the ability to understand language. Where does this urge come from? Is it a chosen pleasure or a natural impulse that simply leads to enjoyment?

I enjoyed the experimentation of the Jackson MacLow poems. Similar to the exercise we did in class, these remind me of madlibs. I tried to find a “reason behind the madness” (as to why some letters were capitalized or removed) but failed. I am beginning to like that characteristic of much of what we read- by trying to find reason, we find inspiration.

Ronald Johnson’s “Radios” I found to be very powerful. Starting with the first lines “O Tree into the World, Man the chosen Rose out of Chaos” makes me think of the overwhelming presence of humanity in the world today and the feeling of arrogance and ignorance that comes with. The work just seemed extremely powerful to me. Also, the lines “And

          All is

          And

          And

          And

          That”

were…I do not know how to describe it, they just were. It is a sense of being.

Sadly, the link for Tom Phillips, Austin Kleon, and William S. Burroughs was broken when I tried to access them. I have not had any problems thus far accessing material, so this was unexpected.

verb you in the noun

Ridiculously the kitten above "quickly from hell inflate penguin."

Mad Libs?

Frantically the toss the cat infinative mood object and subject. Used as a book uselessly. Papers copulative but ladies the soft Illinois. 11 b.c.

Emotion

Don't feel like putting the CREATIVE WRITING thing up since it doesn't feel all that creative to me, so here's what I wrote about the emotion I'd been feeling lately.


I don't know much about my recent emotions, because lately all I've been able to feel is heat. University overcharges on housing, food, and books, but can't afford to turn on any air conditioning? They hire students for their new, unnecessary 24-hour dorm security, but all our rooms are warmer inside than the temperature outside? They charge $6 per payment online but I have to keep my refrigerator open to stop myself from sweating? I guess I've been frustrated. If you mix that with what I've been complaining about, then I'd put the two together and say "hot-headed."

Creative Writing, response paper

Creative Writing/Emotion



C hance to practice rescue

R elatively new island residents

E xtra hunting week added

A fter prodding from summer

T hey were showing up in bright orange

I 'm dying, kept telling myself

V iew was horrible

E xpect to take much time



W ithstand earthquakes on Friday

R escue crews headed up

I love the deer

T o practice rescue

I think there were more people

N antucket or any other island

G ive bridge seismic update


Emotion: Lost/anxiety

Behind every door I walk through is a potential maze. Though I'm among the thousands, on top of civilians of a mini city striving for a similar single piece of paper, I know no one and speak to no one. So I do what I assume everyone else is doing and pretend I own the campus. Right, right. You know, I even have magical arrows pointed under each foot telling me where to go . But honestly, I'm holding my breath with my every passing step, praying my dunce hat isn't showing. What? Free corn on the cobb? No, no, don't get distracted. I'm already lost before I start.





Collective Class Creative Writing


C larity wanted close carelessness paper

R eality shows already generate water cooler

E fforts and various proposals

A rt form toy technical

T hat's the best we can do

I think there are more people

V illage of rainbow weddings far from

E xperience the ultimate



W elcome back to never seeing

R elationship with one particular member

I magine theater left screen sign entirely

T akeover taxpayers are paying millions dollars

I nternet

N antucket any other island

G lobalization admires John F. Kennedy





In Kenneth Goldsmith's Being Boring, he made it easy to relate when poking fun of himself. I feel I often try to recreate the same thing I write by putting on a different, let's say, outfit. It's still the same thing with a different spin on it. I too, feel like every once and a while I am "hoarding" from other ideas that weren't necessarily my own. Often, I may hear or read something, and I try to file it away in my head to use again in a new way. I would prefer to just simply absorb it and let the idea makes its way out when it's time. The different concepts of boring, "boring boring" and "unboring boring," I feel is just another way of saying when we run out of things we go back to the past. Look at fashion. Vintage is and seems to be always in. And I guess the 80's is back, god knows why. Personally, I hate neon. I also understand what Goldsmith means about putting an unboring spin on boring things. His example: Reality shows, a concept I've never enjoyed. However, it takes a normal thing... someone else living their life, conveniently condensed a 30 minute time slot with random road blocks. I may not enjoy it but I understand its entertainment capability.

c.r.e.a.t.i.v.e.w.r.i.t.i.n.g.

C heese sliced apples conjures exhilaration
R ocky roads representing the rebased replacement of records
E ngaged oblique way spoke about
A uthentic lifeboats oar
T urned into a disaster
I n fit clarity carelessness take close
V illafe of rainbow weddings far from
E xperts field prep agreed Harvard never

W idespread securitization isnurers raise premiums
R eaction songs release records crooner imitations
I raq's vest untapped oil reserves
T hrough detailed analysis factor
I 'm dying she kept telling them
N eed to hide your chic ensemble with
G ermany unearthing shreds of a parachute

Cruising down the open road
Roiling phrases resolve sweeping tableau's
Explosion transforming conjured coaches
Alive procedure take body terms never
Tampering the new system
Interrogating me how manage survive say
Visiting bloody apprehended fish-monger
Encounters but he was about to depart

Wariors g-d mosque city law force
Return they say they have
Insurgent attacks increase
They were showing up bright orange
In fact open more than
Need to hide your chic ensemble
Graduated with distinction

Emotion: Stress
Working hard, alone but free
Will this work? Thats what worries me
I shall not fret, there still is time
To see if I can create whats in my eye

Creative Writing/Emotion

Clear that modern horror is against
Repair west village
Enough furious already
Accomplished visionary leader with passion
Teenage energy never dies
Instant access great perks
Vinture news business
Engaging in new activities


Welcome squeezing transistors chip
Record of how he worked on the real-life
Intense that we couldn't be friends
Turned into a disaster
Interrogating me how to manage survive say
Natural hierarchy reveals something part possessions
Guard offers additional essentially



Emotion:
As the days go on I feel trapped with envy
Intense work which feels like its going to kill me
I can see the day I'm free

Energy feels like its gonna run out
But the day can only last so long

Responses to Reading for September 14th

      Kenneth Goldsmith's "Being Boring" and "Sentences on Conceptual Writing" are unusual works that provide insight into the everyday plagues of boredom and insight into abstract thought. Goldsmith proves that sometimes when it appears as though people do not what they are talking about, perhaps they actually know more than the others around them; furthermore, the readers’ experiences influence how they will interpret the writing. Goldsmith states, “It doesn't really matter if the reader understands the concepts of the author by reading the text. Once it is out of her hand the writer has no control over the way a reader will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different ways.” Moreover, Kenneth Goldsmith successfully expresses why works are loved by some and criticized by others. Such an idea leads to my opinion of “Traffic”. I had a particularly difficult time reading the excerpt due to its repetitiveness and consistency in thought. I did, however, like the fact that the writing style truly portrayed an individual’s thought process, such as through the use of “uh” and other filler words.

         “Soliloquy” was particularly interesting to read. Such an idea truly provides an insight into interaction with other human beings and requires the reader to use his or her gestalt perception. Due to the fact the reader cannot tell what the individual is answering, he or she is forced to guess the responses, therefore creating an individual visualization and story. I must say that it would be particularly interesting to hear the tone of the words, as well.

Craig Dworkin’s “Parse” was definitely…well, it was definitely interesting. The layout and construction of his ideas made me feel as though he wanted to drill some information into my head. What though, I am not exactly sure. “Parse” is truly a form of creative writing, and most likely, a misunderstood work at that.

         Finally, Anne Boyer’s “Art is War” reflects the strong influence of personality and experiences upon thought. Boyer conveys the difference between artistic thoughts and impressions and the outside interest that is found in each. Boyer continues to state how she has had to alter some of her ideas in order to not seem cruel. Such a statement, I feel, strongly reflects the insensitive and rejecting nature of society. Art is war in the fact that there will always be someone against you, an opposing force trying to deny your thoughts. However, the ability to defeat the resistance would be a glorifying feet in and of itself.

Creative Writing/Emotion

Criminals even they are smiling the
Raise his voice releasing
Enrich your life
After a pause she added film making
Transforming guaranteed government hybrid benefit
Ideals with real justice
Verision circulating around his office
Educational regime possible.

Watch what happens live envisioned
Rebuilding the stadium in 3 years
Impossible for many listens to sample
Turbocharger aircraft carrier
Ishihara is an exotic name
National agenda next year
Great sounding complicated far away.

Emotion: Happiness

In the last week I had a feeling of happiness
To be able to visit
To visit again a house where my childhood was formed
Home.

Not only a feeling of happiness
A feeling of joy
To see again
Family.

CREATIVE WRITING/emotion

Cast included my parents my brother
Results were close to the first time
Endure rather ending back
Ample sun and warm conditions
Taker over taxpayers are paying millions dollars
Interest poured hedge funds
View was horrible
Exploitation crisis type speech weeks film

Wore still times mother
Real killers brave journalist
Inexhaustible she said they are richest
Taking in the view at Torres
Indiana Jones have taken the place of basic blocks
New feelings get ready
Game column last Sunday about access


Emotion:Angry
my jaw clenched so hard my head began to hurt,
my heart was pounding so hard and fast I just knew that at ant moment it was going to jump out of my chest,
my eyes began to burn they felt as if they were as red as my jacket,
thoughts began backing up in my mind and it was beginning to be unbearable for me to hold them in,
the scream that I was holding back reminded me of a pot of tea sitting on the stove just seconds before it was done,
my palms and my forehead began to sweat,
i felt like a ticking time bomb with 1 second left on my timer....

Creative Writing/Emotion

C ollapse all echoes keenly felt
R ain thats when dozens of charter fishing
E xhausting eyes widen the road
A live procedure take body terms
T rip within 24 hours
I nstitute for electric efficiency
V ersationsalists Kelly Ripa Live Regis Kelly
E vent insurance credit statement

W ell timed wild
R ear spoilers fast furious
I llness unreviewable victim art chose write
T ime flies faster than you think
I mportant maintianing lifeline
N ot good for business
G overnment motive capabilities.

Emotion: Shitty
My girlfriend and I fought last night. That was shitty. I already missed a few assignments because i procrastinated and didn't pay attention. That was shitty, too. I didn't eat lunch today. That was... beyond a bummer. And lastly, my girlfriend is on her period. That's.... there are no words that could could describe how shitty that is. "The Period: Man's Most Hated Cockblocker."

Creative writing/Emotion

Calamities failures worn badges resilience
Risky health care
Exhausted themselves trying to master
All is lost
Technology changed begging
Indicated that they are rebuilding
Very aggressive limitation
Even gone years keep procedure

Withstand earthquakes on Friday
Remain until mid-September
Is theoretically possible majority
Tea as the sun slipped behind
Intensive psychotherapy at William Alanson White Institute
Numerous airport gift shops
Give me 10 o'clock hour Monday nights

Emotion: Eagerness

I'm sitting at the red light waiting to go. Time moves so fast, yet utterly and completely slow. I just need the green to signal me when to go. I'm ready and willing, just confused at which destination to bestow. The roads ahead are open and wide; which way do I choose on this crazy ride?

Creative Writing/Emotion

Climb young awards Kansas City win

Renovation of the new ball park

Even gone years machines keep procedure

Anonymous listen we're all little insecure

Terminus for the city

Indeed Homer lore premeates the community

Video game dissolves virtual

Education, she graduated cum laude

We don't want to be mean

Reacted sharply prospect fight

Imagine theater left screen sign entirety

Troubles

In all an estimated 19000

Now regulator response agency

Give bridge seismic update.

Emotion:

The feeling starts to swell up inside me again. I can feel it's gentle waves lapping at my heart. The pounding of my heart grows faster as we get closer and closer. After being caged in the car for nearly two hours the moment was almost here. I was arriving in my hometown to see my girlfriend for the first time in months. My excitement bursts into smiles as I pull into her driveway, only to see she is not home. I was going to surprise her, you see, and neglected to remember she was working today. And suddenly, my feelings change and my heartbeat slows..

CREATIVE WRITING

Clouds and isolated showers will accompany

Relatively new island residents

Encourage employers to step up

Abuse prisoners custody editions name law firm

Tiny fraction of a degree

I passed your right side

Vulnerable disciplinary measures outright bans

Everybody knows exactly what I'm doing

Worldliness author modern food history

Red flags agency

I'm not sure what the attraction

Twas, he was reading

Imposing thirty percent cap

New feelings get ready

Gesture a new beginning.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry

Instinctively clenching of my hand into a fist,
an accompanying pit of despair follows in my stomach.

Hours of studying and practicing feels like it was done in vain,
expletive, expletive, expletive.


Cove article on Aug 16 about Mexican
Resources drilling oil in this poor, rural
entertainment the must see movie
transparent vinyl subtle white clover etchings
Ideals with real justice
Vocals in the evening
Escalates war result radicalization

World war two families
Relief extract inappropriate funny
Identified primary problem temperature control
Tampering with the new system
Insurance typically covers
Nothing wrong escapism Andy Cohen walked
Graduated with distinction

Frustration

in 2 voices

God! Don't characterize what I'm doing as

lazy. I am at work. To do: write

3 more pages. Why am I always

proposing? Why don't you pick your son

up? Can't you hear? B-I-N-G-

O. Look at him! He doesn't look

at all like you; he's too cute for that.

 

The Corporation renegotiated Saddam-Hussein-era

Resistance movement. Will advise tactic psychiatrist.

Everybody knows exactly what I'm doing,

Adore the issues together,

Taking in the view at Torres

Is not available in all areas. See

Very powerful friends

Endangered knowledge allows predict-droughts

 

The World avoiding heavy handed parallels

Re-paved rest stops rounded for reconnection

Immediate opportunities for learning teaching

Traction levels few days before the election

Is psychologically for females, she said

Network experimental teams

Gain politically in next year's

Where the hell is Chaucer?

PAWS said AUP 190.
First in first to sit.
Students slowly filing in searching for seats in the back.
The clock passes 2.
Professor ambles in, pants rolled up,
Sleeve tattoo.
Is this Chaucer?
He pulls out his laptop and
Exchanges pleasantries with familiar faces and scribbles
English 263.
Shit, I don't think this is Chaucer.
Ask the student next to me reeking of bad weed,
This isn't Chaucer?
He doesn't hear me so I ask him again,
This isn't Chaucer?
Still reveling in a grass stoked trance,
He slowly shakes his head.
Pack my bag and walk out
Feeling like a moron.
Where the hell is Chaucer?

Contrary cliche education
Recognizably composition rooted style
Empire in my hands
Alive procedure take body terms never
Terms handling improved
Inside man kilt swayed back forth
Vision of the future
Electorate that tends reluctant

We don't have enough time
Rescues with crews seen headed up
In this idyllic hiking region
Through detailed analysis factors
It is a poor consolation
Next career move
Guadalajara pronounce with its squat slate

c r e a t i v e w r i t i n g

Control Several hiring monitor temperature investing
Reaction songs release records crooner imitations
Europe where many elderly
After prodding from summer
Times as tense as before
Intensified calls high-ranking clerics
Virture news business
Efforts and various proposals
Waters rush aggressively against rocks
Runabout known for its mohagoney
Institute for Electrical Efficiency
Teen angst films making room everyone
Intricate plank frame construction
Naming rights for new stadiums
Great sounding complicated far away

Today's Intro

A flame-free life, each day as tedious as steel wool, is a circular motion repeated weekly. Future plans as raw as old furniture - no modern finish.