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Poetics & History: Regional Poetics Ammiel Alcalay Spring 2005 Poetics & History: Regional Poetics Ammiel Alcalay Spring 2005 regional poetics #1 The purpose of this course is to pursue an ambitious reading plan. We will cover quite a bit of ground through assigned readings that everyone will do, and cover more ground through the options described below. If all goes according to plan (!), in most cases, at least several students or a small group will end up reading some of the same books, in addition to all the books we read together as a class. The primary work is reading as much as possible; there won’t be papers or a final project but there will be short reports in various forms connecting the reading everyone is doing. The goal is absorption — even like this, we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of many, many writers worth reading & studying (dozens, hundreds?). We are entering a huge world, post 1945 U.S. poetry, and while we will certainly look at individual texts, our primary concern will be to continue the work of mapping and begin the work of a larger synthesis. COMMON TEXTS Writing histories: references Rasula, Jed; The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects 1940-1990 (National Council of Teachers of English, 1996) (acute, obsessive, encyclopedic, almost the ultimate guide to most of the ins & outs) Poetics Olson, Charles; Collected Prose (University of California, 1997) (has most of what is necessary in Olson’s prose, can be supplemented if need be) Spicer, Jack; The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (University Press of New England, 1998) (in lieu of reincarnation, the only accessible Spicer until the 4 volume Wesleyan) Waldman, Anne & Lisa Birman; Civil Disobediences: Poetics & Politics in Action (Coffee House, 2004) (most recent permutation of the great Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute series) Process Wieners, John; The Journal of John Wieners Is To Be Called 707 Scott Street For Billie Holiday (Sun & Moon, 1996) [THIS MAY BE OP; if so, will be included in sourcebook/disk] (journal from the period when Wieners wrote the great Hotel Wentley Poems) Poets Niedecker, Lorine; Collected Works (University of California, 2002) (finally, a collected works, 32 years after her death) Olson, Charles; The Maximus Poems (University of California, 1983) (huge, ambitious, could serve as the basis for a university — let’s attempt, however, to just read it the way it was read when it was coming out, as the news, from Gloucester) Ehrhart, W.D., editor; Carrying the Darkness: Poetry of the Vietnam War (Texas Tech, 1989) (a poetics of extreme & urgent experience, a litmus test for many of our other readings) More poets / a few choices Choose 2 (or more!) of the following: Baraka, Amiri; Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995 (Marsilio, 1995) (a great selection, including the hard to find Dead Lecturer)[may be OP, check on-line] Coleman, Wanda; Mercurochrome: New Poems (Black Sparrow, 2001) (great Los Angeles poet who moves in & out of diverse forms & styles) di Prima, Diane; Dinners & Nightmares (Last Gasp, 1998) (reprint of this early di Prima book, with some additional material) Dorn, Edward; Gunslinger (Duke University, 1989) (“I met in Mesilla The Cautious Gunslinger of impeccable personal smoothness” ESSENTIAL) Duncan, Robert; The Opening of the Field (Grove Press, 1960) _______, Bending the Bow (New Directions, 1968) _______ , Ground Work: Before the War (New Directions, 1984) (mid to late sequence of Duncan’s most important work ) Henderson, David; Neo-California (North Atlantic, 1998) (original member of the Umbra Group, biographer of Jimi Hendrix, exquisite poet) Howe, Susan; The Europe of Trusts (New Directions, 1990) (includes three important OP books from the 1980s) Jonas, Stephen; Selected Poems (Talisman, 1994) (1956: mysterious Jonas, John Wieners, Joe Dunn, Jack Spicer & Robin Blaser all living within a few blocks of each other on the back of Beacon Hill in Boston…) Kaufman, Bob; Cranial Guitar (Coffee House, 1966) (surrealist, jazz poet, Kaufman took a vow of silence after the Kennedy assassination that lasted 10 years; if you read him, also look for Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness; New Directions, 1965) Kim, Myung Mi; Commons (University of California, 2002) (fourth collection by this inheritor & innovator of & in many of our most vital forms) Kyger, Joanne; As Ever: Selected Poems (Penguin, 2002) (a unique poet whose language & form spans some the most important points of close to the past 50 years, from Spicer, Duncan, Wieners & the Beats to Language poetry) Notley, Alice; The Descent of Alette (Penguin, 1992) ______, Disobedience (Penguin, 2001) (ceaseless interpreter of life & experience, these are two of Notley’s major poems) Nowak, Mark; Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House, 2004) (“brand-new” & long-awaited, THE poem on present day deindustrialization) Waldman, Anne; Iovis, Books I & II (Coffee House, 1993/1997) (an epic for our times, packed with personal, political & spiritual energy) Wieners, John; Selected Poems 1958-1984 (Black Sparrow, 1986) (includes Hotel Wentley Poems, Ace of Pentacles, Asylum Poems — breathtaking) Whalen, Philip; Overtime: Selected Poems (Penguin, 1999) (a great selection by one & only Whalen; if you want to pursue Whalen, try looking on-line for an OP copy of On Bear’s Head, 1969, which has the poems as they originally appeared in books) As crazy as this list already is, there will also be a xeroxed or CD sourcebook/disk that may include Helen Adam, Mei-Mei Bersenbrugge, Kay Boyle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Creeley; Diane di Prima, Ed Dorn, George Economou, Vincent Ferrini, Julia Fields, Madeline Gleason, David Henderson, Juan Felipe Herrera, Fanny Howe, Langston Hughes, Bob Kaufman, Etheridge Knight, Sister Mary Norbert Korte, d.a. levy, Duncan McNaughton, Jackson MacLow, Bernadette Mayer, Laura Moriarty, Alice Notley, Ishmael Reed, Ed Sanders, Jack Spicer, Melvin Tolson, Diane Wakoski, Hannah Weiner, et al, with selections from The Poetics of the New American Poetry (1973); Talking Poetics at the Naropa Institute, Vols. 1 & 2 (1978/79), interviews & other OP sources. A number of the books on the list (David Henderson’s biography of Jimi Hendrix, Philip Whalen’s On Bear’s Head, or the Naropa volumes above, are OP; they can usually be found on- line at either Amazon or MXB bookfinder (www.bookfinder.com); all the COMMON TEXTS will be available through Labyrinth & about half a dozen or so each of some of the “choice” books — there are too many options to order everything so you’ll have to fend for yourselves. An attempt will be made to put as much relevant stuff as possible on reserve in our library. If you want to read poets not here (& there are many), let me know & we’ll see what can be done. Obvious omissions: Ginsberg (you must have read him by now!) Many, many, many more… An Annotated Guide ONE: Writing histories: REFERENCES (these books are meant to serve as a program/scorecard, to see who is where/when & according to whom) Everyone should choose 2 of the following (arrangement is somewhat chronological, regional, thematic — feel free to either concentrate or spread out): Du Plessis, Rachel Blau; Genders, Races & Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry 1908-1934 (Cambridge University, 2001) (concentrates on an earlier era but looks at writers that serve as a basis for what comes after: Cullen, Eliot, H.D. Hughes, Moore, Pound, Stein, Stevens, Williams, et al) Thomas, Lorenzo; Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry (University of Alabama, 2000) (overlaps with du Plessis but ranges further, from Fenton Johnson and William Stanley Braithwaite to Margaret Walker, Tolson, Baraka, Umbra & Harryette Mullen) Smith, Richard Candida; Utopia & Dissent: Art, Poetry & Politics in California (University of California, 1995) (great overview of the visual arts & writing scenes in California from 1925 to 1975, stressing the national impact of the region; particularly strong on Robert Duncan) Solnit, Rebecca; Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (City Lights, 1990) (LA & SF counterculture through artists Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jess, Jay DeFeo) Davidson, Michael; San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics & Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge University, 1991) (still the best introduction to & overview of the indispensable SF renaissance) Meltzer, David; San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets (City Lights, 2001) (more SF: great interviews with most of the major figures — di Prima, Ferlinghetti. Kyger, McClure, Rexroth, Snyder, Welch, Whalen, et al) Grace, Nancy M., & Ronna C. Johnson; Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing & Reading Women Beat Writers (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) (hot off the press, this book fills in many gaps, from di Prima to Hettie Jones, Joyce Johnson & Anne Waldman) Charters, Ann; Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation (Penguin, 2001) (pioneering literary historian & scholar Ann Charters provides sourcebook & context) Kane, Daniel; All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (University of California, 2003) (the “New Americans,” from Umbra & St. Marks to the Nuyorican; excellent social, political & literary history includes CD & photos!) Gotera, Vince; Radical Visions: Poetry By Vietnam Veterans (University of Georgia, 1995) (the first & still most comprehensive book on poetry by U.S. vets of the war in Vietnam) Damon, Maria; The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry (University of Minnesota, 1993) (wide ranging & idiosyncratic, from Bob
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