wri 313: strong words

syllabus questions

Ezra Pound, from “A Retrospect” (SW 17)
Pound Poems (202-231): “A Pact,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Other poems: James Wright, “A Blessing” (891);  Robert Bly, “Looking at New-Fallen Snow from a Train” (881); Japanese America Concentration Camp Haiku (718-720)

poet presentations & discussions
Whitman & Dickinson (Gary)

visiting poet: Mike Theune
Joint Class with Justin Gardiner's poetry workshop (location tba)
read: "The Ironic Structure" (handout) before class

DUE: poem

T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (SW 31)
Eliot Poems (277-311): “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” sec. I. “The Burial of the Dead” from The Waste Land
Other poems: Louise Glück, “Quiet Evening” (1083); Sharon Olds, “The Waiting” (1080); John Berryman, Dream Song #4 (722); Mary Doty, “Homo Will Not Inherit” (1183)

workshop

DUE: poem

poet presentations & discussions

Hart Crane, “General Aims and Theories” (SW 47)
Crane Poems (384-408):  “Black Tambourine”
Other poems: Elizabeth Bishop, “The Fish” (631); Robert Lowell, “Skunk Hour” (757)

workshop

DUE: poem

Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes” (SW 44)
Frost Poems (84-105): “The Wood-Pile,” “Birches,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Desert Places,” “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep”
Other poems: Langston Hughes, “Harlem” (523); Carolyn Forsche, “The Colonel” (1168)

poet presentations & discussions

DUE: poem

Marianne Moore, “I tend to write in a patterned arrangement” (SW 103) & Randall Jarrell, “Answers to Questions” (SW 110)
Moore Poems (250-276): “Poetry,” “An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish,” “The Fish,” “The Pangolin,” “The Paper Nautilus”
Jarrell Poems (713-716): “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” “Protocols”

workshop

DUE: poem

William Carlos Williams, “On Measure–Statement for Cid Corman” (SW 83)
Williams Poems (164-201): “Spring and All,” “To Elsie,”  “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “This Is Just to Say,” “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Other poems: Galway Kinnell, “The Bear” (909)

DUE: annotation #1

workshop

DUE: poem

poet presentations & discussions

DUE: your poetics (draft)

workshop

DUE: poem
DUE: reading notebooks