The student will read and assess poetry pertaining to scent in regards to memory. She will engage fellow classmates in poetry writing in an atmosphere of scent throughout the quarter and create Cento (or “Scento”) poems with those works; as well as creating “Scento” poems from perfume/fragrance jingles. The student will participate in weekly seminars and create short works of poetry and/or prose in response to weekly readings. She will develop a greater sense of how smell and memory are connected in our neural networks. At the end of the quarter the student will present her work to her class in the form of two written chapters and a final presentation.

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• Ms – Week 9 Log June 10, 2013 May 27th 2 hours Reading Neuro (Ch. 8) 2 hours Reading Perloff 2.5 hour writing term papers May 28th 2 hours writing term papers 1 hour gathering/editing poetry for term papers 2.5 hours Writing, editing term papers/poetry May ...
• Ms – Week 8 Log May 27, 2013 May 20th 2 hours Reading Neuro (Ch. 7) 1.5 hours Reading Perloff (Ch. 7) 3 hour Writing poems, posting on eAlphabet May 21st 2.5 hours Morning class discussion of readings, thoughts on readings 2,5 hours Writing, ...
• Ms – Week 7 Log May 20, 2013 May 13th 1 hour Reading Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (Stewart) 1.5 hours writing poems 1 hour researching/looking for Proustian writers in library (with much success) May 14th 30 minutes In-class smell experiment with ...
• Ms – Week 6 Log May 13, 2013 May 6th 4 hours Reading Poetry and the of the Senses (Susan Stewart) and A Dirty Smell of Mangoes (Ernesto de Souza Pochito 2 hour Writing and Editing olfactory poems May 7th 4.5 hours Creating poems 2 hours ...

Bachelardian Reverie

• Ms – Week 9 Bachelardian Reverie May 28, 2013 “For, as so many ethnographic studies of laboratory life have shown, the laboratory is not a ‘non-space': it is itself a real configuration of persons, devices, and techniques, which imposes ...
• Ms – Week 8 Bachelardian Reverie May 22, 2013 “This individualized inwardness, with its interiority and its continuity, is both unique to each and common to all (it was not always so, consider slaves, women, ‘primatives’, children, idiots, the ...
• Ms – Week 7 Bachelardian Reverie May 22, 2013 “Anglo-American legal systems conceptualize their subjects – with specific exceptions – as individuals with minds, or mental states, who intend to commit, and who foresee their outcome to the extent ...
• Ms – Week 6 Bachelardian Reverie May 22, 2013 “Where human life is concerned, scientific tools are not neutral: ‘the mind has been recreated in their image'” (Rose & Abi-Rached 159). To be more specific… the collective ‘we’ defines the ...

Poetry

• Ms – Poetry of Smell – Of Coffee and Candles No cheaper way to start the day but powerful and wakes you. u Smokey rooms, bars, and dark hallways, vapors sliding past each other. © Alone, with loved ones, bitter lingering. ¤ Memories of wax ...
• Ms – Poetry of Smell – (s)Cento of the Flower April 30. 2013 Drapes’ weight dusk subtle morning irrigation spring spicy elation vibrant joy childhood my best friend, Carolina womb.   ** This lovely piece was constructed of words that first came to mind for students when smelling a flower that ...
• Ms – Poetry of Smell – Haughtiness Disco Lemonade, Saliva, Body Heat It’s amazing how the rush of domamine dopemine, I’m dopey from the dopa- whatever the hell. of heroin(e) of substances of your breath first kisses -the real one -the one after weeks Subtle brushing of ...
• Ms – Poetry of Smell – Happiness Cashmere Perfume Undertones of cigarette smoke delicate butts rimmed with pink lipstick Diet Pepsi … the gold can with a straw – The consistent smell of Christmas. I could so easily be a chain smoker too … her constant ...
• Ms – Poetry of Smell – Nervousness Tide Detergent + Compost Tipsy knocking on your door (Dreadful) dread inoculates my veins I whine drunkenly for you to help me I want to vomit not from the alcohol but because you’re not alone. My face flushes in ...
• Ms – Poetry of Smell – A Darkness Artificial Cherry Hand Lotion The house, the key my body, broken, Heart a nervous beating. I am a child so scared her nails dig into my arm Why can’t you be pretty? like your sister You look like a boy. But ...

Poetry Observed

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