Introduction

Poetic forms referred to in AoR by Carson Pallinode—a retraction, a reversal of something said before Encomium (15)—a Latin word deriving from the Classical Greek ἐγκώμιον

(encomion) meaning the praise of a person or thing. Meter (5)

References in Autobiograhy of Red by A Carson: J Baudrillard (4) postmodern philosopher and theorist. See document posted on MOODLE in the Postmodernism section for more on him. Socrates Homer author of epic poems The Illiad and The Odyssey. The Iliad and the Odyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author. He was an accomplished Greek poet who probably lived in the late eighth and early seventh centuries b.c.. Authorship is traditionally ascribed to a blind poet named Homer, and it is under this name that the works are still published. Greeks of the third and second centuries b.c., questioned whether Homer existed and whether the two epics were even written by a single individual. Stesichoros gets explained by Carson Gertrude Stein (3 and elsewhere) American Poet who lived in France and wrote about Cubism and Picasso. She used unusual syntax in her work and wanted to write using cubism techniques to make a word be seen anew. Pablo Picasso Spanish painter who also lived much of his life in France. He had a long cubist period which Stein Wrote about. Carson has written an essay about Stein’s treatment of Picasso, which appeared in Flood, 2016 Plato Phedra (16) (= Phèdre in French) Emily Dickinson (22) (108) (111)—American poet who, like Walt Whitman, is renowned for her originality. Lived during/after the civil war and published little in her life, though had correspondence with well-known publishers and critics of the time. Lived in seclusion. Her poems were based in some ways on the rhythms of the book of Common Prayer and she collected these in tiny, handsewn books which, critics argue, she did believe would one day be published. Reflected a lot on death, nature, the place of man in the universe, etc. A lot of her work can be seen as having almost riddling qualities to it, rich with potential readings. P111 is a ref to desire, plucking something sweet and innocent, etc. but the other references in Autobiography of Red are a testament to the complexity of her work and the layered ways one may read and interpret it both, here, for its own merits and as a subtext or parallel to things taking place in the Geryon story. Matisse (34)—French impressionist painter who was strongly influenced by his travels to Morocco? And Tunesia—thus the attention to very ornate wall covering and patterns. Late in life only made large cut ups which often functioned much like wallpaper covering entire museum rooms.

Charlie Parker (34) musician—here is a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6_kbDGIBdc with a bio and some samples of his music. Virginia Woolf (58)—British novelist, early modernist, known for her unusual writing about gender and also original use of form in such books as The Waves. Freud (58)—and “transference / incomplete transference”—German psychoanalyst, responsible also for an entire philosophy and literary theory based on his studies and writings and reflections about his patients and the mind. Died of syphilis? His ideas on transference and incomplete transference are key to the sections here (you can google for those, but I explained them in our CM) “Flying Down to Rio”, 1933 film (76) Heidegger (82) (98)—German philosopher: we will talk more about him and his ideas of Dasein when reading Plainwater. See the handout on Canicula di Anna for far more on him and links to websites for still more. The Skeptics / Skepticism (86): skepsis (GR)= investigation. They also call themselves ‘those who suspend’, thereby signaling that their investigations lead them to suspension of judgment. They do not put forward theories, and they do not deny that knowledge can be found. At its core, ancient skepticism is a way of life devoted to inquiry. It is as much concerned with belief as with knowledge. As long as knowledge has not been attained, the skeptics aim not to affirm anything. This gives rise to their most controversial ambition: a life without belief. // Ancient skepticism is, for the most part, a phenomenon of Post-Classical, Hellenistic philosophy. The Academic and Pyrrhonian movements begin roughly in the third century BCE, and end with Sextus Empiricus in the second century CE. Hellenistic philosophy is a large-scale conversation, not unlike philosophy today. The skeptics (among them Pyrrho, Timon, Arcesilaus, Carneades, Aenesidemus, and Sextus Empiricus) do engage with Pre- Socratic philosophy, Socrates, Plato, and perhaps Aristotle. But their contemporary and principal interlocutors are Epicureans, Stoics, Cynics, and Megarian logicians (cf. Long 2006, ch. 4 and 5). |SOURCE: Stanford Ency of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/ Hammurabi (89)—famous codex of Hammurabi is currently on display in the Louvre: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi for more. Blaise Pascal (91)—French philosopher. Leibniz (91) (96) Philosopher Aristotle and the Skeptics (92) Lazarous (94)—synonym for the devil. Eisenhower (96)—34th president of the United States of America. Nicknamed IKE won on “I like Ike” slogan. Eisenhower's main goals in office were to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits. In the first year of his presidency, he threatened the use of nuclear weapons in order to conclude the Korean War. Mozart (96)—Viennise musican and composer, known to have been very eccentric.

St John of the Cross (96) Franco Agatha Christie (106)—American mystery novelist, author of a kind of pulp fiction with a woman detective/crime solver at their center. Elmore Leonard (106)—crime novelist, lesser known than Christie. Walt Whitman (106-107)—American poet, rumored to have been gay, famous for his Song of Myself, a celebration of all that is unique and individual and alive. Currently being used by Levis to sell jeans that are wild and individual and freespirited. Richter scale (110)—“has neither a minimum or a maximum threshold”, Yeats (137)—William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) Irish poet. Quote on inheriting the earth (138) Icchantikas (volcano) (139 and others)

Some themes and reoccurring ideas or tropes: ***P65—is a perfect echo of an essay by Czeslaw Milosz. Beauty—throughout. A word which also had particular meanings for each Romantic poet—you may recall Keats’ or Byron’s notions of Beauty from last year. Volcano—p105, 108 (and ref to Dickinson poem on the topic); 128-129; 135

Versions of Volcanoes: Lava—p98 Language as material—p26 (Each); p 31 (words as ash); p39 (2 eels…recognized each other like italics); page 83 (the German words flying in circles); Time as material/made of something—pages 80, 90, 91(ish), 93 (what is time made of—revealed, w/combo to p92 to be G’s favorite question), Color as having sound (synesthesia) for example on page 84 Monster—pages 6 (monstrosity v culture); 9, 12, 37, 82, 88*, 92 (Aristotle comparing Skeptics to vegetables and monsters) ; 102 (blame for redness?); 129 H as a/the “master of monsters”; Versions of monster—reflection, p 57 “Himself in that mirror cruel as a slash of lipstick”; pp96-97 subnormals, people with tails; p99 “gnome” waitor; p136 “monstrous rectangles”; Wings—pages 12, 13, 14, 36, 37, 53, 71(2x), 82, 83; 97 (2x) (recognized as a kind of odd birth defect like the 12percent born with tails/self portrait with wings “No tail!”); 109 (2x); 127-129; 144; 145 Versions of wings—pages 55, page 74 (H’s bird dream); p81 (plane wings) (96)