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You will be able to access it on blackboard as soon as the quarter ends.<br>
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There is a lot of reading material required so please keep checking until you have access<br>
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COURSES > GRADUATE POETRY 270 (001) (SPRING 2006) > SYLLABUS<br>
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Syllabus <br>
CRWT 270: Graduate Poetry Workshop <br>
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Professor: Chris Abani <br>
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There is no workshop on Monday, April 3rd. Class begins on Monday,
April 10th. Plenty of time to read and prepare! Check blackboard for
updates. <br>
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This workshop is aimed at graduate students. As such it will not be a
generative workshop, but rather one that assumes that not only has the
student written poetry before, but that they have a small body of work
ready to be discussed. <br>
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The first day of workshop (in person or virtual) I will present everybody with the opportunity <br>
to ask questions about the workshop and their expectations (on both the
part of the professor and student) other than those outlined in this
syllabus. <br>
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Student Work: <br>
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Every enrolled student is required to submit a sample of work to the
workshop of at least 10-20 poems that have been carefully selected by
the student and arranged with athematic, architectural and overall
"progessional" arc (progession here can be narrative, lyric,
archetypal,etc). <br>
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This work must be submitted to the professor in hardcopy prior to the
first day of workshop. The students will then place their work on
Blackboard under "Discussion" in the right hand menu, such that
classmates can download and each print one. <br>
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DO NOT MAKE ANY COMMENTS ONLINE UNLESS ASKED TO DO SO. DO NOT BRING A
LAPTOP TO CLASS TO WORK OFF OF IT. YOU MUST PRINT HARDCOPIES OF
EVERYONES WORK AND BRING IT TO CLASS. <br>
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Required Reading and Discussion: (BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE IN BOOK SHOP) <br>
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1. TOY MEDIUM- Daniel Tiffany <br>
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2. 39 MICRO LECTURES IN THE PROXIMITY OF PERFORMANCE <br>
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- Matthew Goulish <br>
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3. MATADORES- Sarah Gambitto <br>
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4. WIND IN A BOX- Terrence Hayes <br>
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5. SUNSTONE- Octavio Paz <br>
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Each book will be part of a student- led discussion to be determined by
second day of class. In the meantime, all begin reading TOY MEDIUM by
Daniel Tiffany. <br>
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There will also be essays posted on Blackboard. Read them all over the break. <br>
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In responding to student work and books, avoid talking about specific poems until the following has been fully discussed. <br>
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1. Progresional Arc <br>
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2. Thematic thrusts and/or Arcs <br>
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3.The idea of Convergence and Simultaneity <br>
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4. Lyric and Narrative Dialectics <br>
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5. Translucent Concrete <br>
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6. Language Boundaries <br>
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7. The Limitations of Translation <br>
-social <br>
-symbolic <br>
-time <br>
-language <br>
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8. The Grotesque as An Aesthetic <br>
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9. The Next Space <br>
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Your grades will be determined by the quality of your in class
conversations/presentations, the poems you submit and your
participation in all group and individual work including reading all
the material. <br>
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Pleaese be advised that all University policies on plagiarism and all forms of harassment apply in full here.<br>
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