| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- Acquire full theoretical and critical knowledge on contemporary American poetry and post-1970s poetical movements.
- Critically analyze and discuss contemporary American poetry with its multiple trends, issues, and movements.
- Become fully familiar with the social, cultural, political, intellectual, historical, and literary context of contemporary American poetry.
- Are able to conduct further academic research on contemporary American poetry as well as on individual poets themselves from multiple perspectives.
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| Course Contents |
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TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Introduction to the Course & Overview of the Syllabus, Lecture: The Legacy of Introduction to the Course & Overview of the Syllabus, Lecture: The Legacy of Modernist American Poetry & American Poetry After WW2 |
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2nd Week |
Confessional Poetry: Robert Lowell "Waking in the Blue," "Skunk Hour," W.D. Snodgrass "After Experience Taught Me" |
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3rd Week |
Confessional Poetry: Sylvia Plath "The Colossus," "Daddy,", Anne Sexton "Her Kind," "Sylvia's Death," "The Black Art" |
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4th Week |
Black Mountain School: Charles Olson "Projective Verse," "I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You," "Maximus, to himself,"Denise Levertov "Everything that Acts Is Actual," "What My House Would Be Like If It Were A Person" |
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5th Week |
Black Mountain School: Black Mountain School: Robert Creeley "The Pattern," "The Measure," "The Language," "America," Robert Duncan "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow," "Poetry, a Natural Thing" |
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6th Week |
Republic Day- No Class |
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7th Week |
Beat Poetry: Allen Ginsberg "Sunflower Sutra," "Kaddish," "America," Lawrence Ferlinghetti "In Goya's Famous Paintings We Seem to See" "Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)"- Beat Poetry: Gary Snyder "Axe Handles," "Old Woman Nature" "Riprap", Diane DiPrima "Song for Baby-O, Unborn," "An Exercise in Love" |
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8th Week |
Midterm |
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9th Week |
Language Poetry: Lyn Heijinian "The Rejection of Closure," "from My Life: Reason looks for two, then arranges it from there," "from The Unfollowing: 49," "from The Fatalist: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now," Susan Howe "from My Emily Dickinson," "Hinge Picture," "Silence Wager Stories" |
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10th Week |
Language Poetry: Michael Palmer "The Flower of Capital," "Tomb of Baudelaire," "Disclosures," Rae Armantrout "Geography,", "Background Information" |
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11th Week |
Black Poets After the Harlem Renaissance: Amiri Baraka "Black Art" "Legacy" Nikki Giovanni "Rosa Parks" "A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails" Gwendolyn Brooks "Primer for Blacks" "The Bean Eaters" |
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12th Week |
Black Poets After the Harlem Renaissance: Continued |
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13th Week |
Visual Forms of Poetry Andrew Venell "On Visual Poetry," Gwynn Scheltema "Visual Poetry," Geof Huth "Visual Poetry Today" (examples inside article) |
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14th Week |
Poetry, Music, and Performance:Example videos from Spoken Word & Slam Poetry
. Poetry in the Digital World: examples of poets using social media platforms and AI, poetry written by AI |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Levine, Robert S., et al., editors. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 9th edition, Norton, 2017.
DiYanni, Robert. Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions. Random House, 1987.
Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry Vol 2. Modernism and After. Belknap, 1994
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