Showing posts with label "The Tell-Tale Heart". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "The Tell-Tale Heart". Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Amazing Colleagues, Part Ia
I introduced you all to my colleague Aimee Nezhukumatathil awhile ago, so I'm sure you'll be pleased to find out how she turns close reading into an interdisciplinary art form in a brilliant response to Linda Pastan's poem "The Deathwatch Beetle" that ranges from Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" to entomology, from word choice and sound to bodies and spirits.
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