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Rebecca A. Spears is a writer and educator. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Borderlands, Calyx, Texas Review, Sentence, di-verse-city, and other journals. |
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Published Winter 2005
 
At the Dermatologist's Office with Time,
Considering Pedagogy
(Summer 2004)
Work backwards
slip finger down slick pages
index editorial bottle of cognac
wet lips taking in slim cigarette
black-hooded man, wired fingertips, balances
work backwards with few cues
silk dresses at Macy's
half-done conversation in nine-point type
black-and-white sans serif
woman pointing at detainee's Johnson
and laughing: how long is it?
for ill-structured problems
with no reliable algorithm
panties on a naked man's head
man on a leash
work backwards
if this were a birthday card—
disequilibrium is key for motivation
Umberto shampoo, condition, style
exclusively at Target
target, target, bull's eye
expect less and pay more
watch your carb intake
problem-solving needs curiosity and dissatisfaction
pyramid of naked men—
collaboration of M.C. Escher and Mapplethorpe?
if your knowledge is fragile it cannot be applied under
other conditions
it's different for people with
dumb luck
evaluation complicated and time-consuming. |
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Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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