eileen chengyin chow

eileen chengyin chow

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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody. -Sontag. This is somewhere in between.  
@chowleen on Twitter et alia. duke u prof + APSI Dir of Graduate Studies, Duke Story Lab director. shewoinstitute 舍我紀念館 director.
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I say it again and again in this summer rain. -Carol Ann Duffy, “Name” Always read love poems in hard times #everynightapoem #summersolstice

A traditional Jiangsu ditty for the hot, indolent #芒種 #夏至 #小暑 micro-seasons: 芒種夏至天走路要人牽牽的要人拉拉的要人推 Those walking need to be led Those led need to be dragged along Those dragged along need an extra push #everynightapoem 📷Su Xinyu 苏新宇

The punnery in Taiwan Am dead w/ 划蛋瘦肉舟

“life; London; this moment of June.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925. A Wednesday in mid-June.

Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp persists in his belief in eudaimonia, despite all evidence to the contrary amidst the trials of life in modern times. “In Chaplin’s world, laughter is the surname of immortality.” -John Berger Marc Chagall, India Ink Chaplin 1925 Erwin Blumenfeld, Dada Chaplin, 1921

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Hightower now has a spine 😎

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"and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day" Remembering Maurice Sendak, #botd in 1928. from Where the Wild Things Are - my favorite page in the book. It's Max's look of stoic resignation that I love so much. #everynightapoem #ofsorts

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I know a Max named after this. He wore a wolf suit to his 18th birthday party and did indeed make mischief of one kind and another, though not the ones depicted in the book.

"and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day" Remembering Maurice Sendak, #botd in 1928. from Where the Wild Things Are - my favorite page in the book. It's Max's look of stoic resignation that I love so much. #everynightapoem #ofsorts

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FWIW if you're in the LA area in the coming months there's an extensive Sendak show now up at the Skirball Museum, including plenty of Where the Wild Things Are materials. An even more expanded version of the show will open at the Denver Art Museum in October www.skirball.org/museum/wild-...

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Since @chowleen.bsky.social let us know it's Maurice Sendak's birthday today, here's an eerie self-portrait he made at just 20 years of age. The volumetric treatment of his hand in contrast to flatness of other portions reminds me of an image MC Escher made just one year prior to Sendak's drawing

"and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day" Remembering Maurice Sendak, #botd in 1928. from Where the Wild Things Are - my favorite page in the book. It's Max's look of stoic resignation that I love so much. #everynightapoem #ofsorts

"and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day" Remembering Maurice Sendak, #botd in 1928. from Where the Wild Things Are - my favorite page in the book. It's Max's look of stoic resignation that I love so much. #everynightapoem #ofsorts

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us...A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us" From a 20 year-old Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak, trans. Richard and Clara Winston. On the centennial of his death today -

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We are sorry to learn of the death of noted ethnic studies scholar Gary Y. Okihiro, author of many books, including "Third World Studies." dukeupress.wordpress.com/2024/05/21/f...

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I've never read Poor Things, but Lanark is an indescribable masterpiece. Like nothing else I've ever read.

A strange and belated discovery for me: end-of-term indulgence, finally saw #PoorThings (fabulous). Then out of curiosity read -inhaled- Alasdair Gray's original novel. How have I never known of his work before?? It was an absolute thrill, like reading Calvino or Borges or Byatt for the first time.

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not only a great writer but an extraordinary artist - I have a print of his parody of Hobbes' frontispiece in my office.

A strange and belated discovery for me: end-of-term indulgence, finally saw #PoorThings (fabulous). Then out of curiosity read -inhaled- Alasdair Gray's original novel. How have I never known of his work before?? It was an absolute thrill, like reading Calvino or Borges or Byatt for the first time.

A strange and belated discovery for me: end-of-term indulgence, finally saw #PoorThings (fabulous). Then out of curiosity read -inhaled- Alasdair Gray's original novel. How have I never known of his work before?? It was an absolute thrill, like reading Calvino or Borges or Byatt for the first time.

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Devin Fitzgerald, book troll

This came in with another new one: a collection of immigration coaching sheets. These were guided questions and answers to help new immigrants claim to be paper sons and daughters en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_s...

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Every known copy of the 1915 collection of "Songs From San Francisco" is printed with movable type. Except for this lithograph that we just acquired for UCLA. We, without a doubt, can claim the best collection of early Chinese bibliographical materials from California. Almost every title is unique

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Sending the best to everyone missing their mom today. ❤️

forever favorite 🩷💜 母情節快樂！

Celebrating brilliant, kind, justice-minded young people going forth in a muddled world. #Duke2024

Was a difficult choice to leave town amidst Commencement and Mothers Day festivities - but honored to be keynoting at the U of South Carolina Transpacific Symposium this weekend and meeting up with colleagues I’ve long admired. Join us if you’re in town. Details: sc.edu/study/colleg...

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"Yet I could not erase all possibility of hope, for hope lies in the future. I could not rely on my own present evidence in its lack, to refute his assertion that it might exist one day." -Lu Xun, from Preface to Call to Arms, 1922. #everynightapoem #ofsorts #救救孩子

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“Imagine an iron house, with absolutely no windows, indestructible, with many people asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation…Would you think you are doing them a good turn [by waking them before they perish]?” “But if a few awake, you can’t say there is no hope.” Lu Xun

“Imagine an iron house, with absolutely no windows, indestructible, with many people asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation…Would you think you are doing them a good turn [by waking them before they perish]?” “But if a few awake, you can’t say there is no hope.” Lu Xun

Love expired 30 years ago today

Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1 because May loves pineapple and May 1 is my birthday. I tell myself that if she doesn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too Chungking Express 重慶森林 dir. Wong Kar Wai

Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1 because May loves pineapple and May 1 is my birthday. I tell myself that if she doesn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too Chungking Express 重慶森林 dir. Wong Kar Wai

I’ve found a prisoner’s letters to a lover— One begins: ”These words may never reach you.” — What else can I say? It rains as I write this. Mad heart, be brave. -Agha Shahid Ali, from The Country Without a Post Office #everynightapoem #fragment

Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969). safe travels

Renee Tajima-Peña and Fred Ho, anti-apartheid protests in Harvard Yard (this was my era) Let students lead.