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Show o ao o S' c Tt- filth PrOiGSEC? - stl f , t o Q. ff aa 5 $ J AUTHOR OF 'BEND t What's hot when the weather' s not following answers were obtained through an email interview by The Forum and edited for length and content. The Fashion Column PLEASE GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR BOOK Jason Dunnigan StaffWriter Coats, sweaters, boots, jeans, and layers are what comes with colder weather, but there are some surprises this year in winter fashion that some people might want to grab hold of. With the changing weather comes heavier clothes and different textures into your every day attire. Westminster seems to have its own sense of style all year long and tends to constantly be keeping up with the latest fashion trends. DIFFERENT IS GOOD White after Labor Day has been talk- ed about for years. According to Wisegeek, the trend started in the 1950s, saying you cant wear white shoes after Labor day, which makes sense, but then it trickled into all clothes by the 60s and 70s. Now white is accepted year round shoes bewith the obvious non-whi- te cause of the weather. You dont want to get your white shoes ruined in the rain and snow. Every fashion magazine is saying layer, layer, layer. It is easier to take layers off when you get too hot, but youre not always going to have layers to be putting winter months its time to pull out the duroy. You can get corduroy in many different colors and they are great because they have different texture than denim. They are very comfortable and easy to wear. Plus, they have been around forever and so it is easy to go to a thrift shop and get a pair that has already been worn and softened more for your liking. A convenient 10 minute walk from campus and you will find Nordstrom Rack always carries the latest high quality brands at prices college students can afford. Which makes it nice for when you want to get a pair of Sevens, True Religions or, Rock and Republics for less than the regular store price. It is time to put away the Sperry topsid-er- s and time to bring out the boots. The GQstyle guide for 2010 says, No one wants to see you slipping on your butt on your way to work or on your way to class, and were going to imagine that you stained with salt. dont want your lace-uYou can go anywhere and get a pair of be yourself and add a little color to your outfit. GQjsays, You ought to integrate some punch into your wardrobe. forever. As far as pants go, denim is clearly a year round material, but in the fall and I I i i I l I work boots that are as durable as they are Morgan Veenendaal, personal shopper at Nordstroms in Murray, said, Timber-land- s are a great starter boot that will last YOUR LOWER HALF I ps stylish. r i ALL TIED UP When thinking about layers you are going to want to pick pieces that work with each other, but at the same time throw it over a polo with a pair of jeans. Simple, but still staying out of the norm of what others are doing around Utah. Vests are also another great way to throw on a layer, but try to mix it up this year by not just getting another cotton vest, but maybe throwing in some tex- tures. Use materials like tweed or silk, but if you decide to use cotton, make sure your shirt is not cotton too. Mixing up materials is a great way to mix up your wardrobe and be able to pull from different pieces that you can always mix and match. j f on. Its easy to grab a rugby shirt and (PREMISE AND CONTEXT): cor- You want boots that pair up perfectly with hardier pieces like blue jeans, a tweed sports jacket, and a thick, woolly tie, said GQstyle guide. !! WARMING UP Now, its going to be getting a lot colder and what better way to warm up your neck than a scarf. Scarves are great for anyone. They not only keep you warm, but they are a great accessory that can go with anything you might want to wear. Also, grabbing a peacoat will make any outfit look classier, and the great thing is you can get them anywhere. Old Navy is just a 10 minute walk away from campus and they not only have peacoats, but they have them in different colors. See FASHION COLUMN on Pg. 10 I I 1 straight, this poet tells us looks are deceiving, but also books are a bank where ones investment can grow. Like a literary salon, Bend is filled with other writers including Mary Shelley, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein and Michel Foucault used by me to question gender and power, the real and the imagined, the body and the landscape. Their variety of forms and tones, and the grace with which these poems inhabit cultural knowledge, makes reading them pure pleasure. Bend opens with a paean to lan-- I guage, and words in particular, with the poem, A Minor Riot at the Mint. Throughout Ive tried to use (exploit) all three tools of poetry diction, syn- tax and white space (line). The two fi- YOU CHOSE TO WRITE A COLnal poems in the collection, Channel and Acknowledgments represent my LECTION OF POEMS, WHY? charge (to be useful, to be clear) and WHAT WAS THE MOTIVATIONmy debt not only to life experiences, but AL SPARK FOR YOUR BOOK? also to other books. Many of the poems refer to (borrow Every human being has a preferred or spin off from) a variety of other au- -I form of making art mine is poetry. The thors. I want cultural knowledge to be poem, Passing, is my ars poetica. inhabited by the poems, not worn by them. I want people who dont read WHAT WAS THE MOST poetry to be able to connect to at least CHALLENGING PART OF WRITsome if not all of the poems in the book I tried to connect readers without ING THE BOOK? sacrificing complexity and nuance, and Not repeating myself, not doing what without inserting notes. The book has a kinetic structure po- - Id already done. ems are juxtaposed because they chalWHAT'S THE NEXT STEP? lenge, inquire, illuminate, and in some circumstances, even contradict each oth ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKer and any truths. I believe a poem must ING ON ANOTHER BOOK, ANbe experienced pleasurably by the reader. The reader will both speak my poem as OTHER COLLECTION OF POif it is her own, and be addressed by the EMS? WHERE WILL YOU GO FROM HERE? poem; this ventriloquism must be aurally interesting as well as transformative. The poems range in form from pure Ive just completed a third book of polyric to prose narrative, with everything ems (a working title is Qib, Qell, Qatch). I hope the range of form As with my second book, I am pushing and tone keeps the book lively. myself to write poems I dont know how I hope the book is witty and serious to write, learning to make them as I go, a process both pleasurable and difficult. enough to critique patriarchy, capitalThe alphabet is my spur, particularly ism and binary oppositions. The poems both individually and collectively stress etymologies and words I am (initially) change. Every poem is already about unfamiliar with. For instance, a poem writing and about poetry, so I avoid overt spurred by the letter Y uses the word mention of the poet as maker. ytterbium, a metal mined in Sweden, to I see the cover image as a juxtaposibecome an elegy for a steelworker friend tion to the title (both verb and noun), who died young. The letter O prompts offering the way appearances deceive: a a lyric on the U.S. dependence on imhorizon looks straight but is not. When ported oil. we categorize, we restrict. When we de- Each poem demands ancillary reading pict, we argue. A rose is a rats tail is a from me as the search for words leads to rose. a search for an understanding of history, The poems in Bend range from pure science, philosophy and linguistics. to I use groups of poems spurred by the lyric, prose narrative, with everything a restaurant menu same letter to create additional tension Reading reminds us of what hasnt been offered and interest. I must say each poem also and reading novels leads the poet deeper cost me something emotionally, funcinto the thickly wooded country, where tioning as self discovery. a rose is a rats tail. If the horizon looks en. |