The Dissertation Detours

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Poetry Is a Paradigm
On love and other illuminations of being
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Peregrinations #3
in which all that's left is feathers and shit
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Notes on desire lines
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March Reads
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Is the end of exile an empty signifier?
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The Visitor
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Peregrinations #1
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Summer feels like
raspberry donuts and cartwheels
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What Does a Drone Witness?
After Aria Aber's "Azalea Azalea"
Jun 23 • 
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conference transcript: close reading Aria Aber's "Azalea Azalea"
(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement at ACLA 2025
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Peregrinations #2
walking with egrets
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what kind of paradise
a poem
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April Reads
Cristina Rivera Garza, Lorraine Hansberry
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Peregrinations #1
how beautiful that birds not only exist, but that they exist in cerulean
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through the slits
a poem
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Is the end of exile an empty signifier?
close reading Solmaz Sharif's "The End of Exile"
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The Dissertation Detours
The Dissertation Detours
a semi-regular newsletter recording my dissertation-completion journey that sometimes has to do with my dissertation and sometimes doesn't

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