In order to give our class a sense of structure in their approach to Disclamor, we first read the Battery Poems, a sequence embedded in the collection, but first published as an award-winning chapbook. Then each student chose another poem from the collection that attracted them. I encouraged them to go out on a limb and formulate a response to the poem, even if they didn't fully comprehend it. The result was some beautiful language as they attempted to group with the "tracings" of presence in these poems.
Feeding the Pear
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