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Much Depends on Dinner: The Menu
"It seems to me that the menu lies close to the heart of the human impulse to order, to beauty, to pattern. It draws on the original chthonic upwelling that underlies all art. A…
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New York City to Celebrate Frederico García Lorca
The Spanish writer Federico García Lorca lived in New York in 1929 and 1930 and wrote about the experience in a book of verse. Lorca will be the subject of a citywide festival beginning…
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Part V, Affective Poetics and the Narrative Need: Toward a Revaluation, by Leslie Heywood
In my last post I talked about the mechanics of memory, and the way those mechanics take a narrative form. I traced the ways affect potentiates memory, and the way both affect and memory…
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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…
