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Reading Julia De Burgos with the FBI HARRIS FEINSOD
98 CENTRO JOURNAL VOLUME XXVI • NUMBER II • FALL 2014 Between Dissidence and Good NeighBor Diplomacy: Reading Julia de Burgos with the FBI HARRIS FEINSOD ABSTRACT Little is known about Julia de Burgos’s six months as an audit clerk at the Offi ce of the Co- ordinator of Inter-American Affairs in Washington, D.C. (1944-1945). This article recounts this interlude in Burgos’s career by focusing on her FBI fi le and the Hatch Act investigation that led to her termination as a federal employee. Reading the FBI fi le in the vein of literary criticism, the article shows how bureau ghosttranslators characterized Burgos’s political poems as works of dissident Nationalism. In so far as Burgos’s poems navigate the compet- ing ideologies of Puerto Rican Nationalism and Good Neighbor diplomacy, the article links them to a hemispheric matrix of writing—by Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, Luis Palés Matos, Samuel Putnam and William Carlos Williams, among others—in which Puerto Rican decolonial politics intersect international communism and anticommunism. [Keywords: Julia de Burgos; Pablo Neruda; Elizabeth Bishop; Federal Bureau of Investigations; Good Neigh- bor Policy; Puerto Rican Nationalism] The author ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. His current book project is Fluent Mundo: Inter-American Poetry from Good Neighbors to Countercultures. His recent writing appears or is forthcoming in American Literary History, American Quarterly, Arcade, Chicago Review, and the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition, for which he was assistant editor. -
David Bottoms, Poet Laureate of Georgia Featured at Georgia Poetry Society 118Th Quarterly Meeting
GEORGIA POETRY SOCIETY: SERVING GEORGIA’S POETS SINCE 1979 Volume 30, Number 2: Summer 2008 DAVID BOTTOMS, POET LAUREATE OF GEORGIA FEATURED AT GEORGIA POETRY SOCIETY 118TH QUARTERLY MEETING Come enjoy another exciting Other program highlights include the ever-popular program on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at member readings. Dr. Robert Simon will read from his new Kennesaw State University (KSU). We book of poetry, Jill Jennings will provide a workshop and the thank Dr. Robert Simon, faculty member Dr. Robert Lynn will unveil the GPS 2008 anthology, The at KSU and to the Department of Foreign Reach of Song. Languages and the College of Humanities Simon is Assistant Professor of Spanish at KSU. He has and Social Sciences for their support. taught both Spanish and Portuguese languages and has It is our good fortune to have as our investigated the presence of Surrealism, Mysticism and featured reader, David Bottoms, Poet Laureate of Georgia. postmodernism in Contemporary Peninsular Literature. He Bottoms was born in Canton Georgia in 1949. His first book, is widely published in several journals (The Reach of Song, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was selected by The American Poetry Journal and The New York Quarterly) Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman and has a book of poetry, New Poems from the Airplane and Award of the Academy of American Poets. Bottoms’ poems Graveyard. He explains his poetry as “an exploration of the have been published in a wide variety of magazines that intimate connection between love, death, and the languages includes The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris that harness and define me as both a poet and a scholar.” Review and Poetry, and more than four dozen anthologies Jennings has won top awards from several poetry and and textbooks. -
When the Tsunami Came to Shore
When the Tsunami Came to Shore <UN> <UN> When the Tsunami Came to Shore Culture and Disaster in Japan Edited by Roy Starrs LEIDEN | BOSTON <UN> Cover illustration: The Great Wave Off Fukushima by Roy Starrs, 2014. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data When the tsunami came to shore : culture and disaster in Japan / edited by Roy Starrs. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-26829-6 (hardback : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-26831-9 (e-book) 1. Disasters-- Social aspects--Japan--History. 2. Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011. 3. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. 4. Typhoons--Japan--History--21st century. 5. Floods--Japan--History--21st century. 6. Atomic bomb--Japan--History--20th century. 7. Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. 8. Disasters--Japan-- Religious aspects--History. 9. Disasters in literature. 10. Japanese literature--History and criticism. I. Starrs, Roy, 1946- DS806.5.W47 2014 363.34’940952090512--dc23 2014020424 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. isbn 978-90-04-26829-6 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-26831-9 (e-book) Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Global Oriental and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. -
Dionne Brand's Global Intimacies: Practising Affective Citizenship
Dionne Brand’s Global Intimacies: Practising Affective Citizenship Diana Brydon “I say this big world is the story, I don’t have any other” (Inventory 84) Rosi Braidotti suggests that “The human has been subsumed in global relations of intimacy, complicity and proximity with forces of the inhuman and post-human kind: scientific, industrial and military complexes, global communication networks, processes of commodification and exchange on a global scale” (264). She argues further that it is the task of critical theory to track the “fluctuations“ of this new disorder (264). In this paper I ask what tracking these fluctuations involves, for the poet Dionne Brand who sets herself this task in her long poem, Inventory, and for the critic who reads her work fully attentive to the historical legacies of humanism and their entanglements with the humanities and the humanitarian.1 The CFP for this special issue asks two related questions that I pursue here: “what good is the study of literature?” and “how does the turn to ethics position literary criticism in relation to politics?” It is not possible to answer these questions definitively. In this paper, I follow Brand’s lead into registering the visceral force of the kinds of global intimacies enumerated by Braidotti in order to ask what these practices imply for the political projects of citizenship and community in contemporary times. I argue that to fully grasp the implications of how Brand’s poetry engages and is engaged in these emerging global complicities, critics need to attend to the dynamics of the experiential dimensions of its affect as well as its explicit meaning.2 “On Poetry,” the last essay in Dionne Brand’s Bread Out of Stone, concludes: “Poetry is here, just here. -
LOCATING the IDEAL HOMELAND TN the LITERATURE of EDWIDGE DANTICAT by JULIANE OKOT BITEK B.F.A., the University of British Columb
LOCATING THE IDEAL HOMELAND TN THE LITERATURE OF EDWIDGE DANTICAT by JULIANE OKOT BITEK B.F.A., The University of British Columbia, 1995 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULIFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (English) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) May2009 © Juliane Okot Bitek, 2009 ABSTRACT Edwidge Danticat, who has lived most of her life in the United States, retains a strong link with Haiti and primarily writes about the Haitian experience inside and outside the country. For Danticat, the ‘ideal homeland’ is a psychic space where she can be Haitian, American, and belong to both countries. Danticat’s aspiration and position as one who can make claim to both Haiti and the United States somewhat supports Stuart Hall’s notion of cultural identity as a fluid entity and an identity that is becoming and is, not one that is static and was. However, Danticat locates her ‘ideal homeland’ within the Haitian Dyaspora, as a social construct that includes all the people of the Haitian descent in the diaspora, whatever their countries of citizenship. This ideal homeland is an emotional and literary space for continued expression and creation of Haitian identity, history and culture. It is not a geographical space and as such, requires that membership in it engage through text. This paper investigates ways in which Danticat expresses the ideal homeland in her fiction and nonfiction works. I use Dionne Brand, Kamau Brathwaite, Edward Soja and Judith Lewis Herman among others, as theorists to discover this ideal homeland in order to show that Danticat, like many diasporic writers, is actively engaged in locating for themselves where they can engage in their work as they create new communities and take charge of how they tell their stories and how they identify themselves. -
Carolyn G. Heilbrun I Beautiful Shadow: a Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson PRODUCTION EDITOR: Amanda Nash [email protected] 7 Marie J
The Women’s Review of Books Vol. XXI, No. 3 December 2003 74035 $4.00 I In This Issue I Political organizers are serious, while the patrons of drag bars and cabarets just wanna have fun, right? Julie Abraham challenges the cate- gories in her review of Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco. Cover story D I Before she died, Carolyn Heilbrun contributed a final essay to the Women’s Review—a discussion of Beautiful Shadow: A Biography of Patricia Highsmith. The piece expresses Heilbrun’s lifelong inter- est in writing women’s lives, and we publish it with pride and sadness, along with a tribute to the late scholar and mystery novelist. p. 4 Kay Scott (right) and tourists at Mona's 440, a drag bar, c. 1945. From Wide Open Town. I When characters have names like Heed the Night, L, and Celestial, we could be nowhere but in a Toni Morrison novel. Despite Tales of the city its title, Love, her latest, is more by Julie Abraham philosophical exploration than pas- Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 by Nan Alamilla Boyd. sionate romance, says reviewer Deborah E. McDowell. p. 8 Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 319 pp., $27.50 hardcover. I I The important but little-known n Wide Open Town, Nan Alamilla Boyd so much lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender feminist Lucy Stone, who stumped presents queer San Francisco as the scholarship, have served as key points of the country for women’s suffrage, Iproduct of a town “wide open” to all reference in US queer studies over the past forms of pleasure, all forms of money-mak- two decades. -
Sidney Keyes: the War-Poet Who 'Groped for Death'
PINAKI ROY Sidney Keyes: The War-Poet Who ‘Groped For Death’ f the Second World War (1939-45) was marked by the unforeseen annihilation of human beings—with approximately 60 million military and civilian deaths (Mercatante 3)—the second global belligerence was also marked by an Iunforeseen scarcity in literary commemoration of the all-destructive belligerence. Unlike the First World War (1914-18) memories of which were recorded mellifluously by numerous efficient poets from both the sides of the Triple Entente and Central Powers, the period of the Second World War witnessed so limited a publication of war-writing in its early stages that the Anglo-Irish litterateur Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-72), then working as a publications-editor at the English Ministry of Information, was galvanised into publishing “Where are the War Poets?” in Penguin New Writing of February 1941, exasperatedly writing: ‘They who in folly or mere greed / Enslaved religion, markets, laws, / Borrow our language now and bid / Us to speak up in freedom’s cause. / It is the logic of our times, / No subject for immortal verse—/ That we who lived by honest dreams / Defend the bad against the worse’. Significantly, while millions of Europeans and Americans enthusiastically enlisted themselves to serve in the Great War and its leaders were principally motivated by the ideas of patriotism, courage, and ancient chivalric codes of conduct, the 1939-45 combat occurred amidst the selfishness of politicians, confusing international politics, and, as William Shirer notes, by unsubstantiated feelings of defeatism among world powers like England and France, who could have deterred the offensive Nazis at the very onset of hostilities (795-813). -
THE C$80,000 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE ANNOUNCES CANADIAN and INTERNATIONAL SHORTLIST for 2003 Robin Robertson David Young
THE GRIFFIN TRUST For Excellence In Poetry Trustees: Press Release Margaret Atwood Scott Griffin Robert Hass Michael Ondaatje THE C$80,000 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE ANNOUNCES CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL SHORTLIST FOR 2003 Robin Robertson David Young TORONTO, March 27th — The Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist for 2003 was announced today by Scott Griffin, Chairman of The Griffin Trust. The C$80,000 Griffin Poetry Prize is the most generous international poetry prize for a single volume of poetry, and is awarded annually for the two best books of poetry published in English the previous year anywhere in the world. The seven shortlisted nominees are divided into three Canadian and four International. The Canadian Shortlist Concrete and Wild Carrot • Margaret Avison Brick Books thirsty • Dionne Brand McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New • P.K. Page The Porcupine’s Quill, Inc. The International Shortlist Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994 • Kathleen Jamie Bloodaxe Books Moy sand and gravel • Paul Muldoon Farrar, Straus & Giroux American Sonnets: Poems • Gerald Stern W.W. Norton and Company Steal Away: Selected and New Poems • C.D. Wright Copper Canyon Press The shortlisted poets will be invited to give a reading in Toronto at a Harbourfront Reading Series Special event on June 11th and the two winners, who each receive C$40,000 will be announced at the third Griffin Poetry Prize awards on June 12th. THE GRIFFIN TRUST For Excellence In Poetry The judges for 2003 are the distinguished poets Michael Longley (Northern Ireland), Sharon Olds (U.S.) and Sharon Thesen (Canada). -
Entrance Ceremony Held to Welcome Newest Students by JIU Times
Produced by × JIU TIMES Vol. 16 SPRING 2016 Entrance ceremony held to welcome newest students by JIU Times Josai International University (JIU) held an entrance ceremony for new students on April 2 at its Togane Campus in Chiba Prefecture. The university, which is celebrating the 25th year anniversary, welcomed 1,650 students to its eight faculties and graduate school, as well as its school of Japanese Language and Culture. Among freshmen, 330 were non-Japanese from 22 countries and regions in Asia, Europe and South America. The ceremony at the Sports Culture Center was attended by foreign dignitaries, including HRH Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Ibni Tu- anku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail, the Crown Prince of Perlis, Malaysia; HRH Tuanku Haj- jah Lailatul Shahreen Akashah Binti Khalil, Right photo: The Crown Prince of Perlis, Malaysia, HRH Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Ibni Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail, one of the guests at the JIU entrance ceremony, addresses new students at the Togane the Crown Princess of Perlis, Malaysia; former Campus in Chiba Prefecture on April 2; Left photo: The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Perlis, Malaysia, HRH Tuanku Hajjah Lailatul Shahreen Akashah Binti Khalil, look on during the ceremony. Malaysian Minister of Tourism and Josai Cen- tre of ASEAN Studies Director Ng Yen Yen; Foundation that enabled five female students Bright future ahead for latest graduates of JIU Kamarudin Hussin, former vice chancellor of from the Southeast Asian country to study at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP); and Zul the university from the 2016 academic year. by Terutada Tsunoda, Student Her Imperial Highness Princess Taka- Azhar Zahid Jamal, deputy vice chancellor of “Created by the mother of his royal high- Faculty of International Humanities mado attended the ceremony, offering a UniMAP. -
JOHN GIORNO, Dial a Poem Selection of Poems
JOHN GIORNO, dial a poem Selection of poems Vito Acconci 1. Hello, 2:05 2. There, Then, 1:52 3. Pronouncing, 1:25 4. Hair, Forehead, 2:06 5. Small, 2:00 Kathy Acker 1. I Was Walking Down The Street, 2:30 Helen Adam 1. Cheerless Junkie Song, 2:45 Miguel Algarin 1. Setanta Y Cinco Abriles, 1:43 Amiri Baraka 1. Our Nation Is Ourselves, 4:42 2. Wailers, 4:45 Laurie Anderson 1. Born Never Asked, 4:30 2. Closed Circuits, 7:26 3. Dr. Miller, 4:22 4. It was Up In The Mountains, 2:11 5. For Electronic Dogs, 3:10 6. Structuralist Filmmaker, 1:12 Drums, :30 John Ashbery 1. Definitions Of Blue 1:48 2. Civilizations and Its Discontent, 1:56 3. The Tennis Courty Oath, 1:58 4. Our Youth, 1:49 Bill Berkson 1. Stanky, 1:36 2. Leave Cancelled, 1:30 3. Sheerstrips, 1:40 Charles Bernstein 1. Wall As, 2:48 Ted Berrigan 1. Flying from London to New York, 1:48 2. And this last poem is called Report It’s called things to do in New York City, 1:58 3. Excerpt Memorial Day, 3:53 4. To Jack Keroac, .55 Joe Brainard 1 I Remember The Day when Joe Kennedy Was Shot, 1:46 2. I Remember Sack Dresses, 1:45 3. I Remember Liberace, 1:49 4. I Remember What I thought If You Do Anything Bad, 1:49 5. I Remember When Fiber Glass 6. I Remember Organ Music, 1:47 7. I Remember My First Attempt At A Three-some, 1:55 8. -
American Book Awards 2004
BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS 2004 America was intended to be a place where freedom from discrimination was the means by which equality was achieved. Today, American culture THE is the most diverse ever on the face of this earth. Recognizing literary excel- lence demands a panoramic perspective. A narrow view strictly to the mainstream ignores all the tributaries that feed it. American literature is AMERICAN not one tradition but all traditions. From those who have been here for thousands of years to the most recent immigrants, we are all contributing to American culture. We are all being translated into a new language. BOOK Everyone should know by now that Columbus did not “discover” America. Rather, we are all still discovering America—and we must continue to do AWARDS so. The Before Columbus Foundation was founded in 1976 as a nonprofit educational and service organization dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature. The goals of BCF are to provide recognition and a wider audience for the wealth of cultural and ethnic diversity that constitutes American writing. BCF has always employed the term “multicultural” not as a description of an aspect of American literature, but as a definition of all American litera- ture. BCF believes that the ingredients of America’s so-called “melting pot” are not only distinct, but integral to the unique constitution of American Culture—the whole comprises the parts. In 1978, the Board of Directors of BCF (authors, editors, and publishers representing the multicultural diversity of American Literature) decided that one of its programs should be a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restric- tion or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre. -
The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2011 International And
THE GRIFFIN TRUST For Excellence In Poetry Trustees: Margaret Atwood Press Release Carolyn Forché Scott Griffin Robert Hass THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE ANNOUNCES Michael Ondaatje THE 2011 INTERNATIONAL AND CANADIAN SHORTLIST Robin Robertson David Young TORONTO – April 5, 2011 – Scott Griffin, founder of The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry and David Young, trustee, announced the International and Canadian shortlist for this year’s prize noting that judges Tim Lilburn (Canada), Colm Toíbín (Ireland) and Chase Twichell (USA) each read 450 books of poetry, including 20 translations, from poets in 37 countries around the globe. The seven finalists – three Canadian and four International – will be invited to read in Toronto at Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory in the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. The seven finalists will be awarded $10,000 for their participation in the shortlist readings. The winners, announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Awards evening on Wednesday, June 1, 2011, will be awarded $65,000 each. International Shortlist Human Chain ● Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux Adonis: Selected Poems ● Khaled Mattawa, translated from the Arabic written by Adonis Yale University Press The Book of the Snow ● Philip Mosley, translated from the French written by François Jacqmin Arc Publications Heavenly Questions ● Gjertrud Schnackenberg Farrar, Straus and Giroux Canadian Shortlist Ossuaries ● Dionne Brand McClelland & Stewart The Irrationalist ● Suzanne Buffam House of Anansi Press Lookout ● John Steffler McClelland & Stewart 363 Parkridge Crescent, Oakville, Ontario L6M 1A8, Canada www.griffinpoetryprize.com Tel: 905 618 0420 Email: [email protected] THE GRIFFIN TRUST For Excellence In Poetry Each year, the Griffin Poetry Prize publishes an anthology, a selection of poems from the shortlisted books, published by House of Anansi Press.