@poesispoesis

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

 Santa Cruz, CA
ucsc.academia.edu/RobWilson
Joined June 2010
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Rob Sean Wilson@poesispoesis20 Mar 2025
"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
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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 dukeupress.edu/reimagining-t…
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"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@DukePress22 Jan 2025
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 buff.ly/4g8szVW
Cover of Oceanic Becoming by Rob Wilson. The cover features an abstract, textured design with fluid, earthy tones of orange, brown, blue, and hints of black, evoking the dynamic interplay of ocean and land. The subtitle, "The Pacific Beneath the Pavements," is written in bold, minimalist white typography below the title and author's name, harmonizing with the artwork's organic flow.

ALT Cover of Oceanic Becoming by Rob Wilson. The cover features an abstract, textured design with fluid, earthy tones of orange, brown, blue, and hints of black, evoking the dynamic interplay of ocean and land. The subtitle, "The Pacific Beneath the Pavements," is written in bold, minimalist white typography below the title and author's name, harmonizing with the artwork's organic flow.

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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
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