[from Letters to Kelly Clarkson] Julia Bloch: Dear Kelly, Apropos of nothing, I wear the season like an animal’s disguise, plan to wing it till the end of the year. There are many cords running across the length of the couch, ideas coast in on ones and zeros, without color. Letters to Kelly Clarkson takes up these issues in poems that combine the intimacy of the epistolary form with the sonic intensity of verse. Employing formal methodologies aimed at interrupting and foregrounding the cultural politics of that intimate address, such as cut-ups, aleatory practices, non-narrative prose techniques, and parataxis, these poems mediate the tensions between local pleasure . “The blips divulged in Letters to Kelly Clarkson by Julia Bloch could almost make a reader blush with how personal and, at times, crushingly earnest they are.” — Charlotte Seley, Rediver “Most often, Bloch ties her prose poems to Kelly as a means of leading readers through the ways in which our daily processes somehow reflect the popular media of the day.
Letters to Kelly Clarkson Poetry. LBGT Studies. In this sequence of prose poems addressed to American Idol reality TV show winner and insta-star Kelly Clarkson, Julia Bloch engages an America more willing to choose its next Fox, Coke, and Ford spokesperson than its n. Julia Bloch. Director, Creative Writing Program. blochj@www.doorway.ru () CPCW Website. Julia Bloch received a BA in political philosophy at Carleton College, an MFA in creative writing/poetry at Mills College, and an MA and PhD in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of three books of. Julia Bloch received a BA in political philosophy at Carleton College, an MFA in creative writing/poetry at Mills College, and an MA and PhD in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Letters to Kelly Clarkson, From to she was associate director of the Kelly Writers House. She now directs the Creative Writing.
She is the author of three books of poetry: Letters to Kelly Clarkson, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; Valley Fever, published in ; and The Sacramento of Desire, forthcoming in Her several chapbooks include Hollywood Forever (Little Red Leaves Textile Series) and Like Fur (Essay Press). ‘Letters to Kelly Clarkson’ by Julia Bloch. Author: Sarah Burghauser. J “Everyone wants music that transports them,” writes the speaker in Julia Bloch’s new book of prose poetry, Letters to Kelly Clarkson. While one need not possess a discerning ear for musical talent to appreciate the cultural meaning of a pop star like Clarkson, Bloch’s collection of poetic epistles pricks the barrier between the actual and the illusory. “As Julia Bloch turns her razor-sharp gaze to American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, she adopts the beseeching tone of a fan and the intimate address of a best girl confidante. All women know what it’s like to be watched, but for Kelly, it’s that scary feeling upped a notch, like the viewers’ eyes have been pumped full of steroids.
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