Published in FAKE MATH (McNally | Amazon).
If you are one of my students, consider the following:
- What is the difference between the language that we encounter in poetry, and the language that we encounter in advertising? What’s the effect of placing advertising language in a poem?
- What is the “wrinkle resistance”? How does your interpretation of this phrase matter to an understanding of the poem?
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What in the wider culture does the poem seem to criticize? Is there a way it also seems to criticize poetry?
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