Patricia Laurence

Professor Emerita, City College, English Dept.

Critic, biographer, poet. Interest in transnational modernism; biography; Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Studies; Elizabeth Bowen & Irish women writers; Republican era Chinese literature.

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic Launch of Special issue on Medbh McGuckian: in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! via email 1 year, 1 month ago

    Dear Maureen,
    Glad to see Irish Studies move into Europe as there is sometimes a
    nationalist trend. Look forward to the program.
    1:00 pm in NYC? If not a convenient time, will it be recorded?
    Best,
    Pat

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic prose poems feeling somewhat surrealist in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years ago

    Look forward to receiving copies.

    Pat

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic spring semester: surrealisms… in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 1 month ago

    Add: the spirit of the object, the person, the word…

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic spring semester: surrealisms… in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 1 month ago

    Yes– the other Patricia–the the spirit of the object and the word held “captive” until released or animated by chance, as with surrealists and writers.

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic spring semester: surrealisms… in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you for the Rukeyser poem. I’m interested in surrealism as a stream of historical transformations. The relationship between surrealism and the Gothic that Breton sketched early on; and surrealism and the Celtic belief about which Proust writes in Swann’s Way. “The souls of thousands whom we have lost are held captive [in a plant, stone…[Read more]

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic joy harjo poem in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks MA for that wonderful poem as we all get up from our Thanksgiving tables. Here’s another:
    <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>Table by Richard Tillinghast
    <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>from the Turkish of Edip Cansever
    <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>A man filled with the gladness of living
    Put his keys on the table,
    Put flowers in a copper bowl…[Read more]

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    Patricia Laurence started the topic Translation as Storytelling event: Susan Bernofsky in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    This sounds promising for those interested. Bernofsky now translating The Magic Mountain.

    2:30 ET

    Thursday, October 29, 2020, 7:30 p.m. CET (2:30 p.m. ET)Translation as StorytellingSusan Bernofsky, Associate Professor of Writing, Columbia UniversityEllen Maria Gorrissen LectureLocation:

    ONLINETranslating is always a kind of storytelling,…

    [Read more]

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic Tuesday at 430-6 in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 4 months ago

    Need instruction on how to add images.

    Pat

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic Tuesday at 430-6 in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! via email 2 years, 4 months ago

    Sistine Chapel image, Michelangelo, fig tree; Blake; Lucas Cranach

    [image: A Detail You May Not Have Noticed in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
    Fresco – Atlas Obscura]
    [image: William Blake ~ Projeto C.O.V.A. – Blog | William blake, Bible
    illustrations, Adam and eve]

    [image: Apple logo | Logok]

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic Tuesday at 430-6 in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 4 months ago

    So saying, her rash hand in evil hour

    Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck’d, she eat:

    Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat

    Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe,

    That all was lost.

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic Tuesday at 430-6 in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 4 months ago

    Read Polizotti: some translators (I can’t find it in Jerome), 17c. European dramatists (who wrote in Latin and influenced Milton) consciously read and used the word “mala/malum” for “apple/evil” as a pun, liking the associative meanings, as Polizotti claims.  But Milton  pointedly with no scriptural foundation only allows the description “apple” …[Read more]

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic air bubbles in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 4 months ago

    Will we be getting a link to the Monday meeting?

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic a phrase in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 4 months ago

    Yes, MA, phrases that cling. And images too. Thinking of Chris’ introduction of Saidya Hartman and how she said in another place that an image can stand in for a lost archive (on the history of slave women) lighting up darkness. Reminds me of my Slovak grandmother arriving on Ellis Island, her silences and the lost story of her life. Images of…[Read more]

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic Re: New File – Between Dorothy and William in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! via email 2 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks to Josh for juxtaposing Dorothy and Wordsworth, and the other
    Patricia for sparking the issue with her thoughts and wonderful poem (“she
    breathed her own ethers into his words”). Male imaginings, voicing or
    appropriation of women’s perceptions, writing, and womanhood have
    preoccupied critics since –if not before–Woolf described women as…[Read more]

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic the zoom link! in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 4 months ago

    Is this all about non-arrival? I can’t connect either.

    Pat

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    Patricia Laurence replied to the topic translation item in the forum Group logo of Poets Together!Poets Together! 2 years, 4 months ago

    Random thoughts.

    Intrigued last week by seeing Monet’s mystical Gare St. Lazare, the Semaphores, and the signs in it that do and don’t signify: the elusive, blank, round railroad signs; the fog of impressionism; the sound of a train in the scene. I think of how the signs–visual images (do we see the back or the front?)–are blank, open, any…[Read more]

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