ELA-Author-Sym-LNF

Author's Craft - Symbolism - Print - Literary Nonfiction
//****"The Rose the Grew from Concrete,"** **// Tupac Shakur. Poetry. The collection is both an album based on the poetry of Tupac Shakur (released in 2000) and print. The album features celebrities reading Shakur's poetry and writing, much in the spirit of a traditional spoken word album.
 * E1-E4 //(need to add 4 sources, strive for variety)

[|"Soldier Son"] by Janet Burroway. Essay. This piece, originally titled "Soldier Son," first appeared in 1997 in New Letters, a literary journal at the University of Missouri. It was later reprinted by the  // "Utne Reader". Other relevant essays accompany it the online version cited. "Soldier Son" appears in NewAmericanEssays: New Letters, Volume 72 Number 1. // ISBN: 1886157553. A gun becomes the symbol through which mother can speak to son, and vice versa.

[|Prehistoric Eyes] by Guy Davenport. Appears also in The Geography of the Imagination: 40 Essays by Guy Davenport. ISBN: 1567920802. The author writes that the most primative symbol among the most primative people on earth today create symbols that have double meanings as deep as myuth adn religion and art. In fact primative arts informs today's art symbols.

//****"In the Garden"** by Todd Hearon. Short Poem. //** Appears in Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers. The poet, writing from Rock Hill, South Carolina,and whose poem was submitted to this collection by the "Harvard Review" uses the hymn "In the Garden" as a symbol of his father's Alzheimer's ridden mind as an impenetrable place where the poet wants to visit.

****"Whatweakersex?"** ** by Fran Landsman. Poem. Collected in **//** I Wouldn't Thank you for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists //, edited by Carol Ann Duffy, the new Poet Laureate of Great Britain. The poet uses the application of the male "pinch" and reverses it as a female "pinch for as a symbol for reversing roles. //**