This book was interesting. It was different from other poem books that I have read which I think is what made me continue to read it. Jenifer K. Dick's poems were hard to understand. Many of them I had to read a few times to get even a small hint of what she was talking about. Although they were hard to understand she did a good job of "showing" what she was talking about.
Although this book was rather confusing, there was one poem that stuck out to me and that poem is called 'I want to take back". This poem stuck out to me because it reminded me of Ed Roberson's poem called "Spontaneous Supremacies". It reminded me of this poem because of the way it is spaced out. That was the first thing that caught my attention. Another thing that caught my attention was the first few words of the poem. The first part goes "I want to take back..." and then in Ed Roberson's poem there is a part that says "...it wants everything back". They just seemed similar and it is nice to see two different poets using close to the same style of writing.
Another poem that was interesting to me is called Anti-dote. This poem is interesting to me because it seems like it is talking about a woman who is on drugs but is trying to quit. The bottle that Jenifer Dick is talking about could be some type of medication to keep her from wanting to go back to the drugs, but it isn't working. She is probably looking out of her window and seeing how happy and carefree all of the people are, and wishing that she could be that too.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Response to Wreckage of Reason
The stories that we were assigned to read in Wreckage of Reason were all interesting and some of them were also rather confusing. One of my favorite stories in this book is called New York/LA Whirlwind Romance by Karen Lillis. I found this story very entertaining and it was also one of the easier ones to read. I found this story interesting because it is all dialogue and just what this man was saying to this woman that he hadn't even met yet. In class my group and I believed that these two people must have met over the Internet because they never met in person and were only conversing over the phone at first. While they were on the phone the guy just continuously gives the woman compliments and starts talking about how he could be in love even though he has never met her. Then on page 72 he also says, "I don't want to do the distance thing again...Maybe we should cu this off right now...Maybe we should hold out for someone in our own city." When he said this I believed that he was starting to have second thoughts about talking to this woman. Another example of this is on page 73 going into page 74 where he says, "I think it's going to be fine...I think it's going to be more than fine..I think it's going to be great...Today I woke up from meditating and i realized, it's going to be fine." My group and I thought that since he kept saying this, it wasn't the woman who he was trying to reassure but himself. I kind of wish that we could see what they woman was saying in response to everything that he was saying.
In this story there are also times that he contradicts himself. For example on page 74 he says, "Today I woke up from meditating and I realized, it's going to be fine." Then later on down the same page he says, "I'm not a Buddhist:in Buddhism there's no desire. I DESIRE this. I want this to work." I'm not going to say that Buddhists are the only ones who meditate but it just stood out to me that he was meditating earlier in the day and then comes out of nowhere saying that he is not a Buddhist.
Another place that he contradicts himself is on page 73 when he says. "I think you're a brilliant writer." And then on page 75 when the woman had made it to Los Angeles, he said, "Someday you'll write something real. Not just this id stuff, this ego stuff." And also on page 76 he says, "You've got a lot of baggage. That's what your novel is, your baggage. its psychobabble." He tells her how great a write he thinks she is and then when he finally meets her its like he was holding back the truth and can't stand to hold it in anymore. On theses parts my group and I also thought that maybe the woman could be a Psychologist because id and ego are something that you learn in an introductory course for psychology. This story overall was very interesting and I am glad it was assigned in class.
In this story there are also times that he contradicts himself. For example on page 74 he says, "Today I woke up from meditating and I realized, it's going to be fine." Then later on down the same page he says, "I'm not a Buddhist:in Buddhism there's no desire. I DESIRE this. I want this to work." I'm not going to say that Buddhists are the only ones who meditate but it just stood out to me that he was meditating earlier in the day and then comes out of nowhere saying that he is not a Buddhist.
Another place that he contradicts himself is on page 73 when he says. "I think you're a brilliant writer." And then on page 75 when the woman had made it to Los Angeles, he said, "Someday you'll write something real. Not just this id stuff, this ego stuff." And also on page 76 he says, "You've got a lot of baggage. That's what your novel is, your baggage. its psychobabble." He tells her how great a write he thinks she is and then when he finally meets her its like he was holding back the truth and can't stand to hold it in anymore. On theses parts my group and I also thought that maybe the woman could be a Psychologist because id and ego are something that you learn in an introductory course for psychology. This story overall was very interesting and I am glad it was assigned in class.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Fiction Packet Number Two
There are a few stories that I found interesting in this packet but the one that was most interesting to me was Internal by Brian Evenson. This story caught my attention right at the beginning because the first sentence. The sentence was "My internship, so Doctor Rauch informs me, will consist not only of the dispensal of pill, the administration of pain and relief, the observation of and restraint of patients-in short, the rigorous exploration of all the clinic's faces-but in addition, the covert analysis of Rauch's brother." The reason this first sentence caught my attention was because of the part that says "...the administration of pain and relief..." This was interesting because what psychologists intentionally try to cause their clients pain? Also seeing as this person applied for the internship wouldn't they have checked to see what they would be doing before applying? Analyzing someone's brother should not be a part of the job.
Then there was another part in this story that caught m attention and it was the part that says "...Rauch claimed he could ask this of me because I am "hardly the typical intern."" This is where my group and I started to believe that this intern was not an intern at all but a patient. more evidence of this is on page 60 where the intern says "By what means will Doctor Rauch recall me to the clinic once he feels my analysis sufficient? I cannot be reached by letter, for the mailbox requires a key, a key Doctor Rauch has failed to provide. i am isolated, at the mercy of my advising doctor. I must hurl myself into the analysis and remain engulfed until he drags me forth." this could be further evidence that this intern is a patient because he is cut off from everyone else without any way to communicate unless he or she leaves the apartment that Doctor Rauch has sent this person to. While working under Doctor Rauch and trying to observe his brother, he waited for quite some time and Rauch's brother never showed up.
My group and I later started t notice how this person seemed to be going a bit insane. the intern left Doctor Rauch and went to work for a man named Doctor Kaegan who wanted this person to observe his brother just as Rauch had wanted he or she to do. Under the heading Sharp on page 69, the intern goes into talking about how they will stab the other person in the eye once they look back into the hole and how the other person must be thinking about doing the same thing. Then the intern starts to diagnose himself on page 61 which at least I believe most psychologists do not do, but then again maybe they do.
Then there was another part in this story that caught m attention and it was the part that says "...Rauch claimed he could ask this of me because I am "hardly the typical intern."" This is where my group and I started to believe that this intern was not an intern at all but a patient. more evidence of this is on page 60 where the intern says "By what means will Doctor Rauch recall me to the clinic once he feels my analysis sufficient? I cannot be reached by letter, for the mailbox requires a key, a key Doctor Rauch has failed to provide. i am isolated, at the mercy of my advising doctor. I must hurl myself into the analysis and remain engulfed until he drags me forth." this could be further evidence that this intern is a patient because he is cut off from everyone else without any way to communicate unless he or she leaves the apartment that Doctor Rauch has sent this person to. While working under Doctor Rauch and trying to observe his brother, he waited for quite some time and Rauch's brother never showed up.
My group and I later started t notice how this person seemed to be going a bit insane. the intern left Doctor Rauch and went to work for a man named Doctor Kaegan who wanted this person to observe his brother just as Rauch had wanted he or she to do. Under the heading Sharp on page 69, the intern goes into talking about how they will stab the other person in the eye once they look back into the hole and how the other person must be thinking about doing the same thing. Then the intern starts to diagnose himself on page 61 which at least I believe most psychologists do not do, but then again maybe they do.
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