Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Poetics

  1. I Am a Tree: A Monologue on Tropical Ecotourism
    Ecospiritual poetic monologue examining tropical rainforest commodification within capitalist ecotourism, employing Kahyangan cosmology and decolonial critique.
  2. “In”: M. NourbeSe Philip and “Center”
    Explore M. NourbeSe Philip's poetry through place and geography, examining how her strategic use of 'in' engages colonial displacement and Afro-Caribbean poetics of center, wholeness, and inwardness.
  3. Ono’s encounters with forcibly mobilized Koreans shaped his poetry
    Tozaburo Ono's wartime encounters with forcibly mobilized Korean workers at Fujinagata Shipyard and their influence on postwar poetic representation and philosophical development.