List of Works

A list of works that shaped my undergraduate studies.

My curriculum for an imagined class that I have titled "Feminist Poetry as Protest: Deconstructing Gender and Exploring Desire Through Non-Narrative and Imaginative Forms."

Works from Premodern or Early Modern Periods 

1. The Book of Job, Author Unknown, Between 700 and 400 BCE

2. Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi, 400 BC 

3. Haikus by Bashō, late 1600s 

Works from the Humanities Produced After the Mid-1600s 

1. Bluets, Maggie Nelson, 2009 

2. Ariel, Sylvia Plath, 1965 

3. Another Country, James Baldwin, 1962 

4. The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922 

5. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1910 

6. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Anne Carson, 1995

7. When My Brother Was An Aztec, Natalie Diaz, 2012 

Multi-Media Works

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Celine Sciamma, 2019 

2. Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig, 2017

3. The Notion of Family, LaToya Ruby Frazier, 2001-2019 

4. Girl Pictures, Justine Kurland, 1997-2002 

5. Rich and Poor, Jim Goldberg, 1977-1985

6. Looking for Alice, Siân Davey, 2015

7. Recent Work, Olivia Bee, 2019-Present 

Works Specific to My Concentration 

1. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson, 2015

2. “Poetry is Not A Luxury,” Audre Lorde, 1985  

3. Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1987

4. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath, 1963 

5. SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas, 1967 

6. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution”, Judith Butler, 1988 

7. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence", Adrienne Rich, 1980 

8. Heroines, Kate Zambreno, 2012 

9. “Reconstructing Asian-American Poetry: A Case for Ethnopoetics,” Shirley Geok-lin Lim, 1987

10. “Reading Asian American Poetry”, Juliana Chang, 1996 

11. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong, 2019 

12. “The Uses of Anger,” Audre Lorde, 1981