{"id":5329,"date":"2011-05-26T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2017-06-20T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T17:20:31","slug":"stepdeath-tcluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/stepdeath-tcluster\/","title":{"rendered":"After My Stepfather&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Listen to Wes McNair Reading the Poem<\/strong>\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\"      controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2010\/03\/stepdeath-markup.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:400,audioHeight:30\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/td>\n<td><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>After My Stepfather&#8217;s Death<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Initial Exploration<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Again it is the moment before I left home<br \/>\nfor good, and my mother is sitting quietly<br \/>\nin the front seat while my stepfather pulls me<br \/>\nand my suitcase out of the car and begins<br \/>\nhurling my clothes, though now<br \/>\nI notice for the first time how the wind<br \/>\nunfolds my white shirt and puts its slow<br \/>\narm in the sleeve of my blue shirt and lifts them<br \/>\nall into the air above our heads so beautifully<br \/>\nI want to shout at him to stop and look up<br \/>\nat what he has made, but of course when I turn<br \/>\nto him, a small man, bitter even this young<br \/>\nthat the world will not go his way, my stepfather<br \/>\nstill moves in his terrible anger, closing the trunk,<br \/>\nand closing himself into the car as hard as he can,<br \/>\nand speeding away into the last years of his life.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Notebook Page 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12240\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp1-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp1-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Transcript 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly1-772x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12243\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly1-772x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly1-772x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly1-772x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly1-772x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Transitions and Structure<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Notebook Page 2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12241\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp2-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp2-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Transcript 2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly2-798x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12244\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly2-798x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly2-798x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly2-798x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly2-798x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Endings and Line Breaks<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Notebook Page 3<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp3-800x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12242\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp3-800x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp3-800x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp3-800x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-nbp3-800x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Transcript 3<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly3-800x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12245\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly3-800x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly3-800x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly3-800x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/stepdeath-ovrly3-800x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br 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