Amy Gestler, "In Perpetual Spring"

Here.

e.e. cummings, "[in Just-]"

At the Foundation.

Additional Note #1 Winners:

Books and Stuff
Vivir, Sonar, Leer
I Spilled Ink Across Our Pages
Let's Get Rich and Give Everybody Nice Sweaters
Much Madness is Divinest Sense

Lisa Olstein, "Dear One Who Has Been Absent this Long While"

At the Foundation.

Note #1 peer review winners:

No Such Thing as an Ordinary Cat

Book About a Book

Organized Chaos

The Dancer's Mind

Another Twist, Another Turn

Winners are relieved of the burden of taking this week's Etymology exam, or of dropping their lowest score at the end of the quarter. 

Spring Poems Week: Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Spring"

This week, poems of spring.  Today, Millay, here.

Exercise #3 Teenreads.  You have the option of either writing a book review or a poem/book trailer.  Let's figure out just what our book reviews should look like.  Visit Teenreads and browse their reviews.  Read at least three, but more if you like, and then compose a brief observational blog post, titled "Exercise #3" and labeled "exercise," that discusses what you think the elements of a book review need to be.  What do the three or so reviews that you read have in common?  What seem to be the parts of these reviews? 

Your post only needs to list the three reviews you read and then number at least three "elements," or "requirements" of what you think a review needs to have.  Due today.

Dean Young, "Luciferin"

Today's (neo) surrealist "love" poem: at The Foundation.

Peer review today for Note #1:

Visit and read a handful of Notes from a class one period earlier than yours (1,2, or 4).  Read at least four.  As you read, consider their claim, their supporting examples, and their discussion/analysis of tone or them.  Then, provide at least one piece of positive feedback and one critical suggestion for improvement.  Consider the "common errors" handout we used when suggesting changes.

When you have finished leaving your comments, write the names of the four blogs you read on a piece of paper, circle your favorite, and leave it in the basket on the counter over by the heroes.

"Hello," Benjamin Peret

"Hello"

My airplane in flames my castle flooded with Rhenish wine
my black iris ghetto my crystal ear
my rock hurtling down the cliff to smash the country policeman
my opal snail my air mosquito
my quilt of birds of paradise my hair of black foam
my tomb burst open my red grasshopper rain
my flying island my turquoise grape
my wreck of cars mad and careful my wild flowerbed
my pistil of dandelion projected in my eye
my tulip onion in the brain
my gazelle wandering off in some moviehouse
my casket of sun my volcano fruit
my laugh like a hidden pool where distraught prophets drown
my flood of blackcurrant my nightshade butterfly
my blue waterfall like a tidal wave making springtime
my coral revolver's mouth drawing me like a gleaming well
glassy as the mirror where you watch the hummingbirds of your gaze escaping
lost in a linen show framed with mummies
I love you

--Benjamin Peret

Peret with the a few of the other titans of Surrealism: Breton, Eluard, Tzara.

A painting by his wife, Remedios Varo.

"I Said it to You," Paul Eluard

I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands

For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words

Every caress every trust survives. 

--Paul Eluard

Today: Anthology Work Day

Friday: Note  #1 due.  Post Note #1 to your blog by the beginning of school.  It can be a close-reading of any type of artifact, not just a prose passage.  Consider looking at a scene from a film, a painting, a poem, or, if you've found one, a passage of prose.  Label your post "Anthology."