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Affective Poetics and Narrative Need, Part IV: The Function of Memory [by Leslie Heywood]
In my previous posts, I discussed the role of autonomic nervous system response and primary process affect in the brain’s initial stages of information processing, and how poets demonstrate this processing in their work. …
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Affective Poetics and the Need for Narrative III [by Leslie Heywood]
Yesterday I discussed how the poets Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Joe Weil enact what I am calling an affective poetics: a poetics that demonstrates the bedrock of our affective response outlined in the work…
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Happy Birthday Dorothea Lasky [by Anthony Madrid via facebook]
DOROTHEA LASKY (3/27) SIGNING my name on the Dottie line?—More a pleasure than a tasky.—A very happy birthday toDorothea Lasky. Count Dracula Jack-in-the-Box:Turn the crank and he pops out his casky.A very happy birthday…
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Affective Poetics and Narrative Need, Part 2 [by Leslie Heywood]
Yesterday, in Part I of “Affective Poetics and Narrative Need,” I introduced the concept of primary process affect derived from the work of affective neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, and showed how the beloved poet Maria…
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Monday I Have Friday on My Mind: Poetry and Cocktails with Nata Traub
Diminuendo and Crescendo I really hate recipes. I know I provide them, but I suggest you use them as you would sheet music if you were a jazz musician. I approach creating a cocktail…
