Eugene Lang’s very own Jennifer Firestone, Associate Professor and author, has released a book of poetry titled Story.
“Story is a brilliant antidote to closure and the tyranny of narrative.”
-Brenda Coultas
There is a Story at a beach. There is a couple evolving and devolving inside a new fangled form of the couplet. There is the landscape: the ocean, sand, and sun that language flails in trying to recreate. “The beach reached for them but slipped. / The beach shells and sound. / The beach the one syllable until soft.” Story is a cryptic film, an old photograph, a mystery, where narrative, memory, truth, and trauma are interrogated, where creditability slips much like the language that is storytelling. Where, “what is the truth but what we say.”
To find out more and buy the book, visit: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/story/
October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
May 13, 2016
From Alice Vincent at the Telegraph (UK): “Thanks to an idea from writer and educator Candice Benbow, a free syllabus of hundreds of references to works that accompany and help explain Lemonade’s meaning has been created and released online. Less than a week after Lemonade’s release, Benbow posted on Twitter that she had been contemplating creating the Lemonade Syllabus, as it has become known. […]
Eugene Lang’s very own Jennifer Firestone, Associate Professor and author, has released a book of poetry titled Story.
“Story is a brilliant antidote to closure and the tyranny of narrative.”
-Brenda Coultas
There is a Story at a beach. There is a couple evolving and devolving inside a new fangled form of the couplet. There is the landscape: the ocean, sand, and sun that language flails in trying to recreate. “The beach reached for them but slipped. / The beach shells and sound. / The beach the one syllable until soft.” Story is a cryptic film, an old photograph, a mystery, where narrative, memory, truth, and trauma are interrogated, where creditability slips much like the language that is storytelling. Where, “what is the truth but what we say.”
To find out more and buy the book, visit: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/story/
