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DUKE UNIVERSITY (bridge between East and West campuses)
Durham, North Carolina, March 24, 2002 |
For the fifth and sixth installments of P.P.P., Courtney Baker, Virginia Tuma,
Desirée Martín, and Amy Carroll painted two poems facing each other on the
bridge between Duke's East and West campuses while hundreds of participants
in the Triangle's annual CROP walk served as their readers/audience. These
works both interrupted other "texts" on the bridge and operated in conversation
with each other. In addition, each was meant to be an exercise in brevity which
nevertheless would speak to questions of memory. The first poem draws
inspiration from Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), the second from Elena
Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963). Memorable moments in the
process included several questions concerning translation directed at the public
poets from both Spanish and English speakers.
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