[Cwgrad-announcements] CRWT 270 Syllabus

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FYI:  Sarah Gambito's book is actually called "Matadora"

If someone wants to write a review of Matadora (or reviews of first
books in general), please contact me by email or pull me aside when
you see me on campus.

Neil

On 3/11/06, cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu
<cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
> FYI
>
>  You will be able to access it on blackboard as soon as the quarter ends.
>
>  There is a lot of reading material required so please keep checking until
> you have access
>
>
>   COURSES  > GRADUATE POETRY 270 (001) (SPRING 2006)  > SYLLABUS
>
>
>
>
>  Syllabus
>  CRWT 270: Graduate Poetry Workshop
>
>  Professor: Chris Abani
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>  The first day of workshop (in person or virtual) I will present everybody
> with the opportunity
>  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.
>
>  Student Work:
>
>  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).
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>  Required Reading and Discussion: (BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE IN BOOK SHOP)
>
>  1. TOY MEDIUM- Daniel Tiffany
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>  2. 39 MICRO LECTURES IN THE PROXIMITY OF PERFORMANCE
>
>  - Matthew Goulish
>
>  3. MATADORES- Sarah Gambitto
>
>  4. WIND IN A BOX- Terrence Hayes
>
>  5. SUNSTONE- Octavio Paz
>
>  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.
>
>  There will also be essays posted on Blackboard. Read them all over the
> break.
>
>  In responding to student work and books, avoid talking about specific poems
> until the following has been fully discussed.
>
>
>  1. Progresional Arc
>
>  2. Thematic thrusts and/or Arcs
>
>  3.The idea of Convergence and Simultaneity
>
>  4. Lyric and Narrative Dialectics
>
>  5. Translucent Concrete
>
>  6. Language Boundaries
>
>  7. The Limitations of Translation
>  -social
>  -symbolic
>  -time
>  -language
>
>  8. The Grotesque as An Aesthetic
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>  9. The Next Space
>
>  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.
>
>  Pleaese be advised that all University policies on plagiarism and all forms
> of harassment apply in full here.
>
>
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