Clarissa Castaneda
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | PhD Candidate in English @ UC Riverside, Lecturer in Chicanx Literature @ University Redlands |
| Location | Long Beach, CA, United States |
| Introduction | I am a PhD candidate in English at UC Riverside. I have a dual MA in Literature and Creative Writing from Claremont Graduate University. The purpose of this blog was initially to fulfill an independent study requirement at CGU. The blog has been mostly unused for two years. I am now using it to post my poems in progress and thoughts on arts events that I encounter. I am a native of Los Angeles, CA. I can be reached via email at: clarissa.alvina.castaneda@gmail.com |
| Interests | art, music, literature, film, translation theory, Americana, architecture, museums, travel narratives, the City of Angels |
| Favorite Movies | The Goonies, Some Like It Hot, To Kill a Mockingbird, Smoke Signals, La Bamba, North by Northwest, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Rebel Without a Cause, White Christmas, Singing in the Rain, Super 8, Cinema Paradiso, La Dolce Vita, Houseboat, Funny Face, Roman Holiday, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Secret Garden, Eastern Promises, Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Bastards, Desperado, Little Princess, Y Tu Mamma Tambien, Great Expectations, Volver, Paris Je T'Aime, Life is Beautiful, Il Postino, Snow Walker, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Blazing Saddles, Unforgiven, Hereafter, Le Pacte des Lupes, La Vie en Rose, Westside Story, Vertigo, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, The Revenant, Neither Wolf Nor Dog, Selena |
| Favorite Music | yes to music...too many to list, but Americana, classic Country, mods and rockers...my tastes range from Buena Vista Social Club to My Bloody Valentine to Neil Young to Toots and the Maytals to Willie Nelson |
| Favorite Books | Little Women, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Falling Up, Leaves of Grass, Canto General, Robert Lowell's Notebooks, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Walden, at Swim Two Birds, Love in The Time of Cholera, Eva Luna, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Waste Land, Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, Things Fall Apart, Storyteller, Almanac of the Dead, Reservation Blues, Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, In Search of Bernabe, The Diary of Frida Kahlo, Old Indian Stories, Kiss of the Fur Queen, Zoot Suit, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, Under the Feet of Jesus, Howl and Other Poems, Leaves of Grass, So Far From God, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
Clay is what you use to make everything in the world that matters. It's something you dig up from the earth and then reify through the imagination.