fiction packet 3

For the most part, the stories presented in fiction packet 3 are independent, barring excerpts from “The Sing Fish”, and largely riddled with obscure, symbolic messages on a variety of different topics. They mostly follow a concretely direct narrative that can be followed with little anxiety. The reading itself was very relaxing.

"The Sing Fish,"a inquisitive story of brothers, and mud, fish. The narrative is straightforward flavored with ample peculiar aspects to them but also of mystery and silent indistinctness, which really pronounces the authors creativity and imagination. Luckily the context isnt tortuous, seemingly incomplete sentences jumbled together, yet at the same time challenges the reader to look behind the content.

Juice Response part 2

  Gladman delightfully skewers the dialogue through which our underlying principles manifest themselves. What we are given fulfills us with the desolation of seeing through the cracks in our preexisting arrangements, and into a topic's unknown and strangeness. Where usual narratives motifs of the Neo-Realism tradition would integrate these gaps and attempt to make aware any gaps in logic, Gladman accepts the crevasses within her narrators to be exposed.

“The juice on my mind was no longer 
juice. There was an absence there, but one so constant it 
became familiar. I did not want to drink it. “
                                   (From "Proportion Surviving,")

“In the first years of my life, everything I ate was mush. Today I will tolerate only the toughest of green vegetables and date people who will always forget this. When I had that remarkable glass of apple juice, I had no idea that one day I simply would not be able to find it. The city gets rid of its apples. People find themselves inventing fruit.”

                                   (From “Proportion Surviving”)

Juice response part 1

In Juice, Renee Gladman shares the inviting narratives of well-thought out prose poems. These selected poems offer a narrative presence that seems coincidentally consistent in its expression of the contradictions that are prevalent in any seeking to know, or in any attempt to express the implications of that search upon a subject's experience and condition of being:

 “I knew it was me by the way my head felt: people find themselves in an idea and feel so specified by the idea that they are compelled to show it. Today all my ideas are liquid.”
                                (from "Proportion Surviving," 28)

Gladman is proficient at presenting incitingly direct speech in which her readers will recognize her striving for absolute truth as she describes her attempts to see and to release herself from formal limitations upon our beliefs about what is known or can ever hope to know. We feel her breaking away from conceptions we take for granted which establishes and coerces our sense of ourselves, the world around us, and how we interact as a whole.

Poem responses 1

Kyle Aderohunmu

9/16/2013

 Creative Writing

Jill Darling

Poem Responses

 

 

As you may have known already surmised, each poem in the given packet contained its own impression and tone being presented. Each one brought a uniquely different form and context that enthrall the reader in distinctively diverse ways. For example, let’s look at the difference between underlying motifs amongst three of my personal favorite following poems.

Geology of Water, by Maureen Seaton uses the theme of water and ocean-like terms in her work.  She successfully uses descriptive terms such as indigo, sand, sea, cobalt, and ocean; to convey her personification of herself as water-like compared with the life-like intricacies of H2o and other carbon based anomalies.

Identification, veers off into another tangent comparing terms such as body parts to convey a sort of process that the poem as a whole attempts to reveal. The poet also identifies many descripted words to contribute the reader a clear picture or vista if you will of the events transpiring as being described. Anatomy follows a very similar framework. They both are focused and revolve around different body parts. Anatomy does an exceptional job going into poignant detail with the selected anatomical composition based phrases and keywords.