Biography
Born on May 10th, 1968, Vanessa Place is a novelist, poet and lawyer. She is has multiple occupations. These occupations include, CEO of Vanessa Place Inc, co-director of Les Figues Press, contributor to Xtra Art Quarterly and The Iowa Review, as well as an occasional screenwriter. Place is also a pioneer of sorts. She was one of the first poets into conceptualism. Place wrote Notes on Conceptualisms, a book of notes that define and are examples of what conceptualism consists of.
Appeals of Vanessa Place
I chose Vanessa Place because I have hopes of going to law school and am struck with awe to see how structural yet creative Place can be. Place is not a performance poet. This conceptual poet is not what we would call a
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She did not remember telling the detective appellant said never take less than$50 for “head,” explained “head” meant oral sex, or that a customer should touch her breasts or she should fondle the customer’s penis to make sure the person was not a police officer. Or that if she was going to a hotel with a customer, she should first call appellant, or bring the money to appellant right after sex, or that if she did all this she would be rewarded with pretty clothes and appellant would take care of her. (RT 4:692- 695) (academia.edu)
Place’s argument that her files are poetry is that the poem meets what she believes to be the criteria of poetry. She says the poem has repetition or refrain, rhyme or assonance, and “there is a primacy of language as language” (academia.edu).
Vanessa Place and Feminism
Vanessa Place is also a feminist of sorts. As a fellow feminist myself, I felt a connection with the poet. Place wrote a paper titled Conceptualism is feminism. Within this paper, Place defines conceptualism, poetry, and feminism. Place states in the paper, “woman only exists contextually—one can only be woman relative to man. As everyone knows by now, the woman is what the man is not, as such, she is defined—and must be defined—by man… (academia.edu).” Place’s book, Boycott, is a book of poetry filled with iconic female texts which Place
As questioning continued, she was asked about specific crimes that she had been accused of committing. After the testimony had been taken from
What themes and ideas does Gwen Harwood explore in her poetry and how does she communicate her ideas to the reader
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Due to the interview taking place after hours and the case not being assigned until the following day, I was unable to be present at the time of the interview. However, I have since observed a copy of that interview. The following is a summary of the forensic interview conducted that night by Megan Merrill with Deja Jones. This is a summary, not an exact transcript.
Sometimes I see her as a feminist and sometimes( I can't say anti-feminist), The proper description is a semi -feminist ( this is my opinion ) .CUZ
Akin to intersectional romance fiction, poetry is equivalently as radical. Poetry magnifies the significance of language as a revolutionary tool, one that liberates women and cultivates an environment in which women are free to address their aspirations and anxieties while condemning the ideals of a society that operates under the canons of male chauvinism. In a collection of letters published as a tribute to the late Audre Lorde in Off Our Backs, a feminist newspaper journal written for women by women, one anonymous contributor discusses how Lorde “encourages all women to find their own means of expression, their own poetry to value and to use” (Tyler 32) in her piece “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”. In the piece, Lorde discusses how for women, poetry is not a nonessential indulgence, as Caucasian men throughout history have suggested through how they render poetry as an opportunity to “cover [a] desperate wish for imagination without insight” (Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” 36). Lorde contends that poetry is a “vital necessity of [the] existence” (Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” 36) of women because it establishes the infrastructure on which women “predicate [their] hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action” (Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” 36). Lorde’s text motivates women to exercise “the power of the word, a freedom for women greatly feared by…patriarchal society” (Tyler 32). Lorde states the poetry
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by
Poetry is comprised of many forms and within each form, poets have created; stanzas, rhythm, images, symbolism, meter and meanings. Readers must read each poem and begin inductive reasoning to understand what is written. In using this reasoning, only then can the poem be explained. There are many different types of forms and a ballad is one of these poetic forms. It is usually made up of a basic construction of quatrain stanzas. The lines contain rhyme, and generally tell a story that can be compared to a song. In analyzing, Peter and John by Elinor Wylie, We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks, Riverbanks Blues by Sterling A. Brown and The Cherry-tree Carol, author unknown, meanings are conveyed through their use of form, rhyme and the story
I am a member of a femme poetry collective, Devotion, in Portland, Oregon and have had my work published in Pathos Literary Magazine as well as non-literary academic publications. I am currently a graduate student in Human Geography at Portland State University.
She admits to the officer she had been with one of her fathers’ employees, and was afraid of sexual charges that may be taken against
Danaira Vasquez: I like to try new things, learn about different cultures, do most thing with art, and I love to travel and wish to travel to other places across the world.
The knots also symbolized of how patient the persona’s father, it definitely reflects the he tied the box.