Rob Sean Wilson

Prof. of Literature & CW @ucsc poet & scholar from CT CA & Pac Rim— always writing always “busy being reborn.” Books @Duke UP, @Harvard_Press, @minumsa_books

[Rob Sean Wilson @poesispoesis]

"We have secured an audiobook license for your work Oceanic Becoming: The Pacific Beneath the Pavements. It will be recorded by a professional narrator and released by University Press Audiobooks, an imprint of Redwood Audiobooks, and available for purchase on Audible/Amazon."

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“Children, everybody, here’s what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment."-- Maxine Hong Kingston

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

Thinking about Pope Francis and his Letter on the Role of Literature in Formation:

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"It is not a matter of having a soul, or of saving it, but more actively a matter of soul-making. The soul is creative and [first] must create itself: it is the creative imagination."-- Norman O. Brown

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“I do not express myself in my painting. I express my not-self."-- Mark Rothko

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Reimagining the American Pacific https://t.co/df5VPzDxOt

[Rob Sean Wilson @poesispoesis]

"We have secured an audiobook license for your work Oceanic Becoming: The Pacific Beneath the Pavements. It will be recorded by a professional narrator and released by University Press Audiobooks, an imprint of Redwood Audiobooks, and available for purchase on Audible/Amazon."

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"This mighty Pacific Ocean, as Melville prefigured by the mid 19th century of American adventurism, belts, links, and zones the whole world into geospatial integration—what he called, one hundred years before the environmental science of Rachel Carson, “the terraqueous globe.""

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"Walking on water wasn't built in a day."
-- Jack Kerouac

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What does the 'world atlas' mean to the Tau [people in Taiwan]? A chain of islands in Oceania."-- Syaman Rapongan

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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

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which see the Introduction for free...

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

In "Oceanic Becoming," Rob Wilson @poesispoesis shows that in the midst of the planetary crises the Pacific now faces, it must be understood as interconnected to the other oceans. Read the intro for free on our website now. #OceanStudies #AsianStudies
https://t.co/RPiKyLVwci

[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov

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"I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October."-- Jack Kerouac, On the Road