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Post by moira on Oct 18, 2008 17:01:50 GMT 2
I just heard a series of presentations from an undergraduate poetry class--they had to pick a poem from LETTERS and teach it to the rest of us. I thought you'd be interested to know that their choices were from Jilly Dybka, Lynn Patmalnee, Ann Fisher-Wirth, David Graham, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Shawn Maeder, Celia Lisset Alvarez, and Carol Dorf.
I told them I'd pass on a question about Celia's "What it Takes to be Lois Lane." A segment of the class is quite convinced that in the final scene, Lois is aborting Superman's baby by placing kryptonite "on her flat, grumbling navel." Celia, do you feel like advancing an answer to that?
Lesley Wheeler
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Post by moira on Oct 18, 2008 17:02:21 GMT 2
Oh, boy! So sorry I had not noticed a post concerning me--my apologies, but I have just been very busy and have been accumulating Wom-po mail "for when I get the chance" (I now have 988 messages in my inbox!). Thanks, Ann, for calling my attention to this! It's really super cool; my very first ever "question"! Hee-hee! Okay: well, not so sure where the idea about a baby might be coming from . . . really compelling and I wish I'd have thought of it, frankly, but I just didn't. The "grumbling" I had in mind was just LL's "hunger," my own interpretation of her as a woman struggling in that male-dominated cartoonish world Superman epitomizes. But they are right about the kryptonite--I was attempting to merge new-age crystal approaches to self-realization with the one thing that makes Superman vulnerable; it struck me that it would have the opposite effect on her, make her stronger somehow. I wouldn't say she wants Superman dead or even weakened, but that there is a jealousy in her for the way he is able to transform and transcend himself with impunity. It's so cool of you, Lesley, to use Letters with your students! Thanks so much! I hope that answers the question--and in time! Tickled pink, Celia
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