A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
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How it feels sometimes doing literary historical research
look at the bloody palm!
This essay would be so great in an intro english class; then have them take a different zingy tiny poem and write (on paper, in class, how we do now) an essay that's in their own voice, not an "I am writing a paper I might be chat-gpt" voice, about the journey of their own reactions to the poem.
Hearing reports this rolls out next month. Hope everyone’s read for Big Dick Summer. Cannot express how excited I am. 🐳 🎩 🔪 🌊 👨🏻🤝👨🏾
Gorgeous action item:
Happy pride from Herman Melville/Ilya Rozanov
Coming in July: you thought *Melville* was gloriously digressive…
to have one’s hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing
Give yourself a gift this morning and read this short Eileen Myles piece on Melville's "A Tuft of Kelp" with its annihilating last line: www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blo...
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