For my final project I'd like the make a chap book. The image is that it will be small, with each poem spreading across two pages, so each has its spread. I plan to create collage images that either surround or wrap around and through the poem to illustrate the images that are in each poem. For words that I want to stick out, I was going to replace the typed look with collaged letters, just to make that word more noticed. The poems in the book won't have a general theme to follow, they will just be my favorite poems of this semester.
I mostly want my poem book to have a lighthearted, very visual feel to it. I want colors and images to draw the reader into the poem and be able to hopefully visualize what I'm saying.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Today I went to Ed Bok Lee's poetry reading at the Southdale Library.
The first poem he read began with a comparison between the sea and desert and a line that caught me was "Tonight, the desert and sea are arguing, the desert wants to know, who took all of it's clothes." He then transitioned the comparison of the two opposites to the idea of a persons identity, whether they are the desert, or the sea. He spoke of how every person has their own identify, molded into their hearts, but what people don't know very well, is that it can be changed. I was a little confused when the poem suddenly became about how a predator can be beautiful, but what he was trying to say was very poetic and thought provoking: he spoke of animals helping each other, all to warn each other of a looming predator, but how the entire time, none of them knew that the predator was something beautiful in itself.
The next poem was un-named but I actually found it really moving. The first four poems, to be completely honest, made me a little bored, but this one made me really sit forward in my seat. He began it with saying that the thoughts he speaks about in this poem are from when he was 17 years old, which I found cool because I felt I could relate a little. It began with names he used to be called when he was bullied, and how he always wanted to fight back but couldn't. He describes the anger, depression, fear and helplessness he constantly felt with scenarios he went through and he spoke of his best friend Andrew, who was in the exact same place as him at the time. He uses the comparison of throwing vs. flying to describe how in some people are thrown by the pain and depression, and never come back from it, while others use that anger and pain to fly higher: "Between throwing and flying, not everyone comes back. I did. Andrew didn't." He speaks of the luck he feels to have been able to come back while his best friend Andrew wasn't so lucky, and let the hurt "propel" him downward. He describes the legacy of depression and hurt the pain and spiral of depression can leave by describing Han, the little son of Andrew, being called names for doing what he loves, playing the piano. Not only were the words Ed Lee used in this poem moving, but the way it was presented, almost yelling at the audience how he felt in the hardest of times. It felt like everyone listening could feel the anger he felt simply through the way he spat out the words into the microphone, which made the poem very engaging.
Overall I enjoyed Ed Bok Lee's reading. With the first few poems, I wasn't exactly moved, but by the time he read his poem on bullying I found his way of writing really striking and thought-provoking. I liked the every poem had a clear contrast between good and bad, light and dark, and that he didn't just show support to one side or the other, but gave the sides and showed the beauty of both.
The first poem he read began with a comparison between the sea and desert and a line that caught me was "Tonight, the desert and sea are arguing, the desert wants to know, who took all of it's clothes." He then transitioned the comparison of the two opposites to the idea of a persons identity, whether they are the desert, or the sea. He spoke of how every person has their own identify, molded into their hearts, but what people don't know very well, is that it can be changed. I was a little confused when the poem suddenly became about how a predator can be beautiful, but what he was trying to say was very poetic and thought provoking: he spoke of animals helping each other, all to warn each other of a looming predator, but how the entire time, none of them knew that the predator was something beautiful in itself.
The next poem was un-named but I actually found it really moving. The first four poems, to be completely honest, made me a little bored, but this one made me really sit forward in my seat. He began it with saying that the thoughts he speaks about in this poem are from when he was 17 years old, which I found cool because I felt I could relate a little. It began with names he used to be called when he was bullied, and how he always wanted to fight back but couldn't. He describes the anger, depression, fear and helplessness he constantly felt with scenarios he went through and he spoke of his best friend Andrew, who was in the exact same place as him at the time. He uses the comparison of throwing vs. flying to describe how in some people are thrown by the pain and depression, and never come back from it, while others use that anger and pain to fly higher: "Between throwing and flying, not everyone comes back. I did. Andrew didn't." He speaks of the luck he feels to have been able to come back while his best friend Andrew wasn't so lucky, and let the hurt "propel" him downward. He describes the legacy of depression and hurt the pain and spiral of depression can leave by describing Han, the little son of Andrew, being called names for doing what he loves, playing the piano. Not only were the words Ed Lee used in this poem moving, but the way it was presented, almost yelling at the audience how he felt in the hardest of times. It felt like everyone listening could feel the anger he felt simply through the way he spat out the words into the microphone, which made the poem very engaging.
Overall I enjoyed Ed Bok Lee's reading. With the first few poems, I wasn't exactly moved, but by the time he read his poem on bullying I found his way of writing really striking and thought-provoking. I liked the every poem had a clear contrast between good and bad, light and dark, and that he didn't just show support to one side or the other, but gave the sides and showed the beauty of both.
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