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	<title>Natalie's Blog</title>
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	<description>My thoughts on the most mind-blowing literature available (which is whatever Mara Scanlon says you should read) - visit asianamericanlit.umwblogs.org, gynomod.umwblogs.org, mopo.umwblogs.org, and edhd.umwblogs.org for the course blogs!</description>
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		<title>Darling Lunatic Implications in Tribute to Freud</title>
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It’s easy to dismiss H.D.’s (or anyone’s) visions as self-deception or mental instability.  But by the end of our reading for today, I was wondering how her account of finding the “real” signet-ring came across to readers *1*.  For me, her telling us, “I went back to assure myself that I had not, at any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/04/01/darling-lunatic-implications-in-tribute-to-freud/</link>
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		<title>CC Assignment B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Overview of Acheson&#8217;s &#8220;&#8216;Conceived at the Grave&#8217;s Edge&#8217;: The Esoteric Eschatology of H.D.&#8217;s Trilogy&#8220;
War literature is often read as art that excludes those who have not come into direct contact with warfare from fully understanding its devastation.  Trilogy, as Susan Acheson argues, seems exclusive or esoteric to only those unwilling to surpass archaic binaries.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/03/29/cc-assignment-b/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Was London still there?&#8221;: War in Asphodel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[from p. 118:
There was no use remembering the treasures, the cold, sweet uplifted arm of some marble Hermes, the tiny exquisite foot and bird-like ankle of some Aphrodite.  Those things were being buried and all they could do was to watch, to stand in little groups and knots and after all with the volcano [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/03/26/was-london-still-there-war-in-asphodel/</link>
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		<title>Recommendation: Birthmark, Jon Pineda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was first interested in this book because Pineda is discussed as being an Asian American author who deals with mixed-race issues and father-son relationships.  A number of people in our class, myself included, have taken Asian American Literature but with a focus on women authors.  I&#8217;m really interested in feminist issues, but I&#8217;m looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/03/14/recommendation-birthmark-jon-pineda/</link>
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		<title>ED-HD Connections in &#8220;Loss&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our H.D. reading for yesterday, “Loss” was the poem that reminded me most of ED.  As I’ve indicated at other times, one of the most prominent qualities I see in ED is her continuous attempt to lure us into her world and, to borrow Prof. Emerson’s words, to get us “to stay a while.”  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/03/11/ed-hd-connections-in-loss/</link>
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		<title>CC Assignment A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reconceiving the Maternal: H.D.&#8217;s Early Years of Motherhood
In the early- to mid-1920s, H.D. put a sizable amount of her ideas to text in such highly biographical works as Paint It Today, Asphodel, and Heliodora.  At that time, she was closely interacting with two significant women in her life, Bryher and H.D.&#8217;s own mother, Helen Wolle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/03/09/cc-assignment-a/</link>
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		<title>Recommendation: Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natasha Trethewey&#8217;s book Native Guard (2007) is a collection of poems that very tightly document history.  Throughout my reading this book, I felt like I was interacting with a very dense skeleton.  A lot of her poems are easily seen as ghost-like because they talk about death, abuse, war, and other past events that prompt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/02/23/recommendation-native-guard-natasha-trethewey/</link>
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		<title>CC Assignment C</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Romantic Friendships Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America
&#8220;Romantic friendship&#8221; is a term that usually refers to same-sex relationships in which the friendship is intense enough that it may surpass the platonic level.  The first well-known critical piece to discuss nineteenth-century romantic friendships was Caroll Smith-Rosenberg&#8217;s &#8220;The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/02/16/cc-assignment-c/</link>
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		<title>Audience, Risks, and Voigt&#8217;s &#8220;The Lotus Flowers&#8221;</title>
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I would have liked to finish that discussion I walked out on yesterday (jeez, Obama) about whether and to what extent poetry is for the poet or a wider audience.  It&#8217;s something I think about a lot as a reader, and usually I fall on the side of the audience&#8211;because I believe that perhaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2009/01/21/audience-risks-and-voigts-the-lotus-flowers/</link>
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		<title>Frost&#8217;s Simplicity: Un-thoughtfulness or a Critique of the Complications We Inflict?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the Frost poems I got really into was &#8220;Two Tramps in Mud Time.&#8221;  The idea of uniting vocation with avocation is something that plagues/captivates me regularly.  This poem urges me to continue evaluating that, particularly in the last four lines:
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nsmit1nf.umwblogs.org/2008/12/02/frosts-simplicity-un-thoughtfulness-or-a-critique-of-the-complications-we-inflict/</link>
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