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Moon Dog [Translation], Judy Halebsky (Translating Author), Tomoyuki Endo (Translating Author), Mizuho Ishida Oct 2018

Moon Dog [Translation], Judy Halebsky (Translating Author), Tomoyuki Endo (Translating Author), Mizuho Ishida

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

A Japanese to English translation of the poem Moon Dog originally written by Mizuho Ishida


Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Poetry Reading And Book Signing, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Sep 2018

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Poetry Reading And Book Signing, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Community Engagement Theme

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Who Died: Redefining The Elegy Through Affect And Trauma, Brittney La Noire May 2018

Who Died: Redefining The Elegy Through Affect And Trauma, Brittney La Noire

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

This project introduces the claim that death literature, specifically elegies and epitaphs, do not rely on set structure or content, but rather are poetic effects of trauma and affect. Both have been defined and redefined by critical scholars, but there is still a division about their use. The beginning of the project will pull together Paul De Man, Cathy Caruth, Theresa Brennan, and Diana Fuss to apply the theoretical principle of trauma and affect transhistorically through Theocritus, John Milton, and Percy Shelley. The final portion will be an original creative collection of elegies combined with epitaphs as ending couplets about …


The Poetry Of Delight: Lessons From Chana Bloch, Judy Halebsky Jan 2018

The Poetry Of Delight: Lessons From Chana Bloch, Judy Halebsky

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

The frst thing I learned about poetry from Chana was delight—delight in the world around us, pain and all. I studied with Chana at Mills College in Oakland, California, from 1996 to 1998, in the Master of Fine Arts in English and Creative Writing Program. For a period, our work-shops met at her house in the East Bay hills; I remember her living room with ornate red decorations and dark foor- to- ceiling bookshelves. We would sit in a circle as we read and discussed poems. However, the real focus of our class was on Chana’s stories, anecdotes, and words …