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Jo Park Shows How Observation Becomes A Way of Seeing Ourselves

Jo Park Shows How Observation Becomes A Way of Seeing Ourselves

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From the forest pansy redbud she studies each morning to the students she teaches at Penn, Jo Park talks about the power of observation as both a discipline and a source of meaning. She reflects on how gardening during Covid sharpened her ability to see patterns and small transformations, and how that same attentiveness informs her scholarship on Asian American literature and the frameworks that shape identity. We also explore Jo’s research into the creative work produced by Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, including the rock gardens whose arrangements reveal how people create beauty even under duress. Across gardening, teaching, and historical study, Jo makes a strong case for the power of the humanities and developing our understanding of what it means to be human. Show note: William Carlos Williams' poem, To Elsie: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46485/to-elsie
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