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Cyborg ProverbsThe poem can be read on Northeast Review:
Nitoo Das,
Publisher: Poetrywala
Publication Year: 2017
ISBN-13: 9789382749592
Language: English
The poet is interviewed on Scroll.in:How to Teach Jane EyreFirst, explain it is a crimethat lives incarnate in the tale.A fire that birthsa hunger. Curl to endurethe shifts between days whenyou keep to your caste, days whenyou laugh (a cold, distinct,formal, mirthless laugh) andstill other dayswhen you pace and whirl into a manwith a gytrash by his side.Restlessness, to put it plainly,will be in your nature. Threatenedby the chalk, the chairs,the dust up your nose, in your hair,you have to detailthe tumult, the structureof travel, the architecture of space. Alwayschoose winterfor clarifications. Documentthe pantomime of hurricanesand reserve, the oppositesof custom and love, nightand light, redand white. Faith (like birds)will be disguisedbecause no net ensnaresthought. Acknowledge the readers, silentbut unenslaved. Let them knowit’s easy to stir up mutiny. Forthe strange little figuresgazing back at you, learn to simplify.Defend Indian ink, questiongood race. Rationalise:violent, unfeminine, untrue.Since the tongue of labourhas to be tasted, become a heathen, approachthe windowsill, keep a knifewith you at all times. Stop worryingabout using your teeth.Finally, do not tireof the routineof a decadein one afternoon.
In “How to teach Jane Eyre”, you write “do not tire/ of the routine/ of a decade/ in one afternoon.” How does teaching literature mould how you read and write? (Urvashi Bahuguna)
This is a homage poem and, therefore, almost all the words are direct quotes from the novel. Interestingly, Jane Eyre, when she decides to leave Lowood and move to a new place, says, “I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon”. She decides to give up teaching in Lowood’s sad classrooms to look for the well-paid job of a governess. I cannot imagine giving up the classroom space for anything. All my passion derives from the day-to-day interactions with students. My teaching of Pandita Ramabai resulted in an epistolary series on her life, Robert Browning was responsible for a long phase of dramatic monologues. Many impromptu things I say in my lectures turn into poems. Once, while teaching Lyotard, I spoke of the hackable self. The phrase found its way into a poem. In almost twenty years of teaching, I have also learnt a lot from students’ interventions.
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