Sunday, November 28, 2004
Espejos y Ventanas
Steve Parks has posted a nice run-down about the latest book from New City Community Press, Espejos y Ventanas. Several of us from SU's writing program made the trip to Philly last weekend for the release event. The book's production is intriguing for several reasons. The translated-text layout--one side in Spanish, the adjacent page in English--struck me as one of the more interesting, unique features of its production. I'm sure we'll take it up more fully in class on Tuesday. Reading Canagarajah's Geopolitics draws a provocative correlation between community press initiatives and overhaul in academic publishing, especially when we consider the potentials of publishing in multiple languages or in ulterior spaces.
Posted by Derek Mueller at November 28, 2004 9:50 PM
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re: cartwheels
i'll be doing them with you--if it's not icy enough to make that a serious health hazard! i did one in the basement tuesday. of course, unlike you, i'm short enough to do them in the basement!
which, really, is probably a distinguishing enough difference even at that distance to tell our waves apart. but i'm sure i'm more manic & visibly, physically _silly_ about whatEVER i do than you are!
Posted by: tyra at December 3, 2004 8:17 AMFair enough. My silliness lately is a fairly chaste variety, but then I'm in my first semester--all nerved up about seeming to take things seriously. Being in a new situation means that I have to informally survey various senses of humor. But I'm doing cartwheels, if only in my glad-its-the-end-of-semester thoughts. Turning real cartwheels: I'll be the one on a stretcher. Bonus context.
Posted by: Derek at December 4, 2004 9:14 AM