Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Extra Dog Pound?When all the Pounds were rounded up,
Labels: Limericks
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 9:26 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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I see you moving this in the direction of long cantos, which will quite possibly exceed (at least in reputation and critical reception) the Canto's of the original Extra Pound, who is an architype for us all but certainly nobody's sweetheart.
Those are high hopes indeed! I will, however, be trying to keep to the form of the limerick, regardless of the theme being treated. But that will not be a very easy thing to do.
Jeffery Hodges
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New Limerick is but old Canto writ large...
Or maybe I mean that the other way around?
I'll let you know when I get a round tuit.
Jeffery Hodges
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