Tag: displacement

• Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tinton Falls

  In Red Bank, NJ.

  

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  July 29, 2024

  disappointment, displacement, memory, New Jersey, nostalgia, Poetry, Red Bank

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• Gardening

  On the poetics of cultivation. After Jennifer Chang and Wang Ping.

  

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  July 9, 2024

  America, ancestry, Belgium, displacement, family, gardening, Hong Kong, immigration, moving, New Jersey, New York, Poetry, roots

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• Field Notes: An Apartment in Ghent

  Monday evening.

  So…now what?

  The apartment is clean and empty. It’s ready for a new rental, just as my landlord had promised at the end of April. Everything is the same as I’d left it, in those heady days where nothing seemed to go right and anything was an excuse for an emotional outpouring.

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  May 21, 2024

  displacement, Ghent, homecoming, memory, moving, nostalgia, possessions, space

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• Seated Men

  At the Museu Picasso

  

  One watches the world for the first time.
  Another unfolds what
                  the first sees,

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  May 19, 2024

  abstract expressionism, art, Cubism, displacement, form, Painting, Picasso, Poetry

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