{"id":594,"date":"2016-04-26T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/?p=594"},"modified":"2016-04-26T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:26:59","slug":"visiting-poet-set-to-visit-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2016\/04\/26\/visiting-poet-set-to-visit-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting poet set to visit campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award winning poet, author of many collections, and director of the Southern Illinois University MFA Program in Creative Writing, Allison Joseph, set to visit The University of Scranton on April 27, 2016 in the DeNaples Center room 405 at 8pm.\u00a0 Joseph will\u00a0give a free public reading of her latest\u00a0work.\u00a0 A “Shout\u00a0Out” was given to\u00a0Allison Joseph by Harriet the Blog: The Poetry Foundation.<\/p>\n

Shout Out to Allison Joseph\"My<\/a><\/p>\n

BY <\/span>RIGOBERTO GONZ\u00c1LEZ<\/span><\/p>\n

Published by Steel Toe Books, <\/span><\/span><\/span>My Father\u2019s Kites <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i>is Allison Joseph\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

seventh collection. The title and haunting image on the cover telegraph the rite of passage (the death of a parent) that informs these poems, but readers will be surprised by the honest and complex portrait of a man now deceased that has inspired this book-length elegy: \u201cIf you could read these words, I\u2019m sure you\u2019d damn\/ my college education, or the white man\/ I never even told you that I wed.\/ I write about your life because I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

The emotional center of this book is the thirty-four sonnets in Part Two: \u201cwhat the eye beholds.\u201d Alternating between Elizabethan and Petrarchan sonnet rhyme schemes, the sequence follows the speaker\u2019s stages of grief, from the hour she receives the devastating news (\u201cI couldn\u2019t push away what I\u2019d just heard.\u201d), to the moment of bittersweet acceptance: \u201cMy father isn\u2019t coming up the stairs\/ to yell my name or tease that I\u2019m adored.\/ Some other man now wears the clothes he wore.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in the process of mourning\/ healing comes the discovery of a complicated man\u2019s humanity. This allows the speaker to shift away from the self, her sadness, regrets and rage, and to open up an avenue for her<\/p>\n

father to redeem himself as a man independent of his conflicted role as a father: \u201cWhen friends would ask <\/span><\/span><\/span>what does your father do?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i>\/\u00a0I’d <\/span><\/span><\/span>hesitate, not sure what I could say.\/ Now that he\u2019s gone, I find his resume\u2013\/ a typed-up list of all that he\u2019d pursued,\/ distinctive men he\u2019d struggled to become.”<\/p>\n

To read more visit: http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/harriet\/2010\/04\/shout-out-to-allison-joseph\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Award winning poet, author of many collections, and director of the Southern Illinois University MFA Program in Creative Writing, Allison Joseph, set to visit The University of Scranton on April 27, 2016 in the DeNaples Center room 405 at 8pm.\u00a0 Joseph will\u00a0give a free public reading of her latest\u00a0work.\u00a0 A “Shout\u00a0Out” was given to\u00a0Allison JosephContinue reading “Visiting poet set to visit campus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,17,6,47,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing-2","category-creative-writing","category-opportunities","category-professional-writing","category-reasons-to-study-literature","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":659,"url":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2017\/01\/12\/alumna-poet-brianna-nolls-new-book-turning-heads\/","url_meta":{"origin":594,"position":0},"title":"Alumna Poet Brianna Noll’s New Book Turning Heads","author":"Dr. Joseph E. 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