College English, Vol. 59, No. 8, December 1997

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• The Free Verse Spectrum

  Eleanor Berry

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  Abstract: Surveys previous approaches to free verse. Proposes a new method of articulating the diversity of free verse. Discusses paired poems to show the kinds of things that this new method gives educators to say when they want to talk about the verse of free verse poetry.

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• Michelle Cliff and the Paradox of Privilege

  Lindsay Pentolfe Aegerter

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  Abstract: Discusses pedagogical strategies that encourage keener and more sensitive student reactions to the postcolonial problematics represented in two essays by Jamaican writer Michelle Cliff, essays which often provoke hostility in mainstream, White, middle-class undergraduates. Discusses ways to create a context in the literature or writing classroom that discourages a facile dismissal of Cliff.

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• Pomo Blues: Stories from First-Year Composition

  Lee Ann Carroll

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  Abstract: Shows how some key postmodern ideas about texts forced a teacher and her students to rethink typical writing assignments and typical student responses. Describes the assignments and considers how they invite postmodern critique. Suggests giving up grandiose, romantic notions that Freshman Composition can fix students either personally or politically.

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• POEMS

  Roger Kirschbaum, Sarah Miller, Grace Butcher

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• REVIEW: Telling Tales about Teaching Writing

  Nancy Welch

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• REVIEW: The Rhetoric and Politics of Environmentalism

  Harold Fromm

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• COMMENTS & RESPONSE: TWO COMMENTS ON “SITUATING TEACHER PRACTICE”

  Carolyn Boiarsky; Beth S. Neman / Muriel Harris

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• From the Editors

  Jeanne Gunner

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• Index to Volume 59

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