English 525: Sex Drugs Rock: American Lit After 1960

12/07/2025

While some of the material posted on your class Tumblr site might seem random, much of it is meant to assist you as a resource for class lectures and discussions. The latest is meant to assist with constructing dialectically complex syntheses in your mini-essays/delicious paragraphs you will author for the final.

post: https://www.tumblr.com/sexdrugsrockncomix/802280343294066688/the-beast-in-me-is-at-war-with-itself

class tumblr: https://sexdrugsrockncomix.tumblr.com

class tumblr archive: https://sexdrugsrockncomix.tumblr.com/archive

i did the whole prepare-you-for-the-final thing here as well:

https://www.tumblr.com/sexdrugsrockncomix/800109873803165696/great-parody-be-sire-you-know-and-can-use-the

Professor Blll

ps: I did the same thing a few days back …. Linking something I had perhaps over-mentioned in class, Gregory’s framed magazine picture, with this article: https://literaturetransgression.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/the-woman-in-furs-sexuality-and-transgression-in-the-metamorphosis/

pps: key hints for the final:

https://www.tumblr.com/sexdrugsrockncomix/802285102462877696/the-final-will-be-structured-differently-than-the

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · The final will be structured differently than the midterm — you will be presented with 8 visual or textual prompts of which you will write about 5 of them. Here pictured are actual…

12/07/2025

Key canvas announcement:

While some of the material posted on your class Tumblr site might seem random, much of it is meant to assist you as a resource for class lectures and discussions. The latest is meant to assist with constructing dialectically complex syntheses in your mini-essays/delicious paragraphs you will author for the final.

post: https://www.tumblr.com/sexdrugsrockncomix/802280343294066688/the-beast-in-me-is-at-war-with-itself

class tumblr: https://sexdrugsrockncomix.tumblr.com

class tumblr archive: https://sexdrugsrockncomix.tumblr.com/archive

i did the whole prepare-you-for-the-final thing here as well:

https://www.tumblr.com/sexdrugsrockncomix/800109873803165696/great-parody-be-sire-you-know-and-can-use-the

Professor Blll

ps: I did the same thing a few days back …. Linking something I had perhaps over-mentioned in class, Gregory’s framed magazine picture, with this article: https://literaturetransgression.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/the-woman-in-furs-sexuality-and-transgression-in-the-metamorphosis/

pps: key hints for the final:

https://www.tumblr.com/sexdrugsrockncomix/802285102462877696/the-final-will-be-structured-differently-than-the

12/03/2025

Your buddy! https://www.tumblr.com/sexdrugsrockncomix/801955811445374976/your?source=share

11/12/2025

11/04/2025

This week we spend our mornings with Robert Crumb, David Mairowitz, and Franz Kafka! ➡️ https://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2025/fall/sexdrugsrockcomix_index.html

09/28/2025

Thx from Mag Gabbert ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/p/DPKSVbWgHTA/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

09/18/2025

From Adrian Tomine we turn the page to Mag Gabbert as we move from comix to poetry …

Read this ➡️ Ghazal
(Pronounciation: “guzzle”) Originally an Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love, medieval Persian poets embraced the ghazal, eventually making it their own. Consisting of syntactically and grammatically complete couplets, the form also has an intricate rhyme scheme. Each couplet ends on the same word or phrase (the radif), and is preceded by the couplet’s rhyming word (the qafia, which appears twice in the first couplet). The last couplet includes a proper name, often of the poet’s. In the Persian tradition, each couplet was of the same meter and length, and the subject matter included both erotic longing and religious belief or mysticism. English-language poets who have composed in the form include Adrienne Rich, John Hollander, and Agha Shahid Ali; see Ali’s “Tonight” and Patricia Smith’s “Hip-Hop Ghazal.”

Then this:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1615050/deus-ex-machina-a-ghazal

As you read, remember Tomine’s precision!

Soaking wet in my white dress, I wanted to ask, but from what, exactly? At my friend’s place, before you could spend seven minutes in heaven, you had to step into a closet full of jackets and leashes, just to be safe. And there’s no path to heaven save this. In school I just wanted a…