*Schedule of Assignments

*All assignments are due on the date listed. MP=Modern Poetry, Vol. I; PAP=Postmodern American Poetry; All on-line readings should be read prior to class, printed, and brought to class. When you see the name of a poet, read all poems by that poet. When a number appears next to a name, read the essay on poetics by that writer.

August

M 29 Introduction to class; Robert Frost "Mending Wall," "Out, Out-,-", ""Birches"

September

M 5 Labor Day-- No class

M 12 Tennyson's "Ulysses" & "Demeter and Persephone" Walt Whitman's Song of Myself pp. 4-17 (MP); Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death," "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun," "A narrow Fellow in the Grass" pp. 38-40 (MP)

M 19 T.S. Eliot The Wasteland, pp. 472-87 & "Tradition and the Individual Talent," pp. 941-97 (MP)

M 26 H.D. "Oread," "The Pool," "Sea Rose," "Mid-Day," "Garden," "Sea Violet," "Helen," Fragment Sixty-Eight," "Epitaph" pp. 395-400 (MP); Ezra Pound "Portrait d'une Femme" p. 349, "In a Station at the Metro" p. 351, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" pp. 354-62 (MP)

October

M 3 Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning," pp. 237-40, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" p. 244, "Anecdote of a Jar" p. 246, "The Snow Man" p. 247, "The Idea of Order at Key West" p. 249, "The Motive for Metaphor" p. 258 (MP) & Williams "The Young Housewife" p. 286, "Danse Russe" p. 288, "Spring and All" p. 291, "The Red Wheelbarrow" p. 294, "This is Just to Say" p. 295, From Paterson pp. 302-7 (MP); Paper #1 Due!

M 10 Mina Loy "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" pp. 275-81, "Gertrude Stein" p. 281 (MP); Gertrude Stein "Picasso" p. 178, from Tender Buttons pp. 180-4 (MP);

M 17 Jean Toomer all poems pp. 556-61 (MP); Claude McKay all poems pp. 498-504 (MP); Melvin Tolson all poems pp. 590-604 (MP); Langston Hughes "The Negro Artist and the Radical Mountain" pp. 964-7, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" pp. 687-8, "The Weary Blues" pp. 688-9 (MP)

M 24 One-hour introduction to library resources; Introduction to text, Olson (pp.613-21), & Duncan (pp. 626-8) (PAP); GP I Due!

M 31 First half of the class: Mid-term Exam; The Beats: Ferlinghetti  "I Am Waiting" pp. 46-9 (PAP); Ginsberg Howl pp. 130-5; Di Prima "The Practice of Magical Evocation" p. 273, "For H.D." p. 274

November

M 7 The Black Mountain School: Creeley "After Lorca," "A Form of Women," "The Flower" p. 145, "The Language" p. 148; Levertov "Illustrious Ancestors," "The Ache of Marriage" p. 87, Williams: An Essay" p. 90; Morely"The Lizard" p. 51, "For Elaine de Kooning" p. 54, "Parents" p. 55; Ashbery "The One Thing that Can Save America" p. 178-9, "The Other Tradition" p. 180; Cage "Mesostics Re and Not Re Mark Tobey" p. 18; Olson "I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You" p. 8, Maximus, to himself" p. 14 (PAP)

M 14 The New York and San Francisco Schools: O'Hara (N.Y.)"Meditations in an Emergency" pp. 122-5; Duncan (N.Y.) "A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar" pp. 30-6; McClure (S.F.) "Ode to Jackson Pollock" p 256; Whalen (S.F.)  "The Slop Barrel" p. 81 (S.F.) (PAP)

Confessional: Sexton, Plath (on reserve)

M 21 The Black Arts Movement Poets: Baraka (p.645, plus all poems pp. 258-72); Clarence Major, all poems pp.338-42 (PAP); Nikki Giovani (on reserve), Gwendolyn Brooks (on reserve); Nuyorican Poets Miguel Algarin all poems, pp. 390-3 (PAP)

M 28 Postmodern Theories and Poetics: Howe (p. 646-9); Andrews (pp. 668-72); Silliman (pp. 660-3); Hejinian (pp.653-8); Bernstein (p. 676-9) (PAP); Research Paper Due!

M 5 Meet in the Library (4th floor-- Roberta Allen Reading Room); L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry: Howe "Speeches at the Barriers" pp. 346-51; Weiner "3/10" pp. 185-7, "3/15" p. 187; Hejinian from My Life pp. 385-9; Watten "Statistics" pp. 536-7, "Radio" pp. 537-8; Bernstein "Whose Language" p. 570; "Of Time and Line" pp. 570-1; Waldrop from Inserting the Mirror pp. 313-7; Frazer "re searches" pp. 356-9 (PAP); GP II Due!

Final Exam: Monday, December 12, 2005, from 7 p.m.-8:50 p.m. in this room, unless otherwise instructed.