http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/nafta-superhighway-poetics/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:26:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/nafta-superhighway-poetics/#comment-14055 Lenore Balliro Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:07:01 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=906#comment-14055 Since I am one of the subjects of this interesting analysis, I sure would love to read the work. Have not been able to get hold of it, though, since I am not a bona fide academic, just a former waitress, and still-writing poet. Can you send me the article? Post modern critics, I've heard, are politically sensitive to their subjects. Thanks, Lenore Balliro Since I am one of the subjects of this interesting analysis, I sure would love to read the work. Have not been able to get hold of it, though, since I am not a bona fide academic, just a former waitress, and still-writing poet.
Can you send me the article? Post modern critics, I’ve heard, are politically sensitive to their subjects.
Thanks,
Lenore Balliro

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/nafta-superhighway-poetics/#comment-3965 David Michalski Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:02:05 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=906#comment-3965 Another interesting post. perhaps related to the thread is this article....dm Kovacik, Karen, Between L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and Lyric: The Poetry of Pink-Collar. NWSA Journal 13.1, Spring 2001 Abstract: The poets who are the subject of this paper, clerical workers Chris Llewellyn, Karen Brodine, and Carol Tarlen as well as waitresses Jan Beatty and Lenore Balliro, make use of such divergent strategies as a means of resisting what sociologist Arlie Hochschild calls the "emotional labor" of women's work. The feminized service occupations of waitressing and clerical work require a gendered performance of self-effacement that involves suppressing anger and nurturing co-workers and customers. The poetry of these workers explicitly resists such confining scripts by offering counter-performances, in which the waitress or secretary pointedly calls attention to her presence. Another interesting post.
perhaps related to the thread is this article….dm
Kovacik, Karen, Between L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and Lyric: The Poetry of Pink-Collar.
NWSA Journal 13.1, Spring 2001
Abstract:
The poets who are the subject of this paper, clerical workers Chris Llewellyn, Karen Brodine, and Carol Tarlen as well as waitresses Jan Beatty and Lenore Balliro, make use of such divergent strategies as a means of resisting what sociologist Arlie Hochschild calls the “emotional labor” of women’s work. The feminized service occupations of waitressing and clerical work require a gendered performance of self-effacement that involves suppressing anger and nurturing co-workers and customers. The poetry of these workers explicitly resists such confining scripts by offering counter-performances, in which the waitress or secretary pointedly calls attention to her presence.

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