"Extreme Loveliness": Calendar

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AUG. 24 - Introduction. Excerpt from Bishop video.

29 - Elizabeth Bishop - "The Map"; "The Man-Moth"; "Roosters"; "The Fish"; "Songs for a Colored Singer" - from North and South.   

Poet's Companion (PC): "Stop Making Sense: Dreams and Experiments"; "Images" (Exercise #1, p. 92); "Simile and Metaphor" (Exercises #3, 4, or 5).

(Ongoing Reading: "The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon," Thomas Travisano. New Literary History, 1195, 26: 903-930. )

31 - Bishop - "A Cold Spring"; "Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance"; "The Bight"; "At the Fishhouses"; "The Prodigal"; "The Shampoo" - from A Cold Spring.    

PC: "The Shadow" (Exercise #9 - p. 63); "Writing the Erotic" (Exercise #2, p. 53); "Repetition, Rhythm, and Blues."

SEPT. 5 - Bishop - "Arrival at Santos"; "Brazil, January 1, 1502"; "Questions of Travel" - from Questions of Travel.  

PC: "Poetry of Place."

7 - Bishop - "The Armadillo"; "Sestina"; "First Death in Nova Scotia"; "Filling Station"; "Sandpiper"; "Visits to St. Elizabeths" - from Questions of Travel.  

PC: "Death and Grief"; "More Repetition: Villanelle, Pantoum, Sestina."

12 - Bishop - "In the Waiting Room"; "Crusoe in England"; "The Moose"; "Poem" - from Geography III.   Critical Excerpts.

PC: "The Music of the Line" (Exercise #6 or 8, p. 114); "Images" (Exercise # 7, p. 93).

14 - Bishop - "One Art" (+ xerox of preliminary drafts) - from Geography III.   "Santarem" and "Pink Dog" - from New Poems.   Excerpt from Bishop video.

PC: "Voice and Style" (Exercise #1, p. 127); "The Energy of Revision."

19 - Gwendolyn Brooks - All poems from A Street in Bronzeville. Critical Excerpts.

PC: "Witnessing" (Exercises #1, 3, and 7, pp. 72-73); "Meter, Rhyme, and Form."

21 - Brooks - Poems from Gay Chaps at the Bar + "Children of the Poor"; "The Bean Eaters"; "We Real Cool."  Brooks recordings.

PC: "Repetition, Rhythm, and Blues."

---> Fri., Sept. 22 - 1st Paper due by 5 p.m.

26 - Brooks - "A Bronzeville Mother..."; "The Last Quatrain of Emmet Till"; "The Chicago Defender ...."; "Lovers of the Poor."

28-29 - No class. (READING DAYS)

OCT. 3 - Brooks - "Blackstone Rangers"; "Life of Lincoln West"; "A Boy Died in My Alley"; To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals."  Brooks recordings.

5 - Sylvia Plath - Poems from the Restored Ariel through "Lady Lazarus" + Foreword by Frieda Hughes.   Excerpt from Plath video.

10 - Plath - "Tulips" through "Berck-Plage." Critical Excerpts.

12 - [Cancelled class.]

17 - Plath - "Gulliver" through "Daddy."   Plath recordings.

19 - Plath - "You're" through "Wintering." Critical Excerpts.

---> Fri., Oct. 20 - 2nd Paper due by 5 p.m.

24 - Louise Glück, Averno: "Night Migrations," "October," "Persephone the Wanderer, "Prism."   Excerpt from Glück video.

26 - Glück, "Fugue, "A Myth of Innocence," "A Myth of Devotion"

[Marie Howe Poetry Reading - Marie Howe received a Guggenheim and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Agni, Harvard Review, and New England Review, among others. She is the author of What the Living Do and The Good Thief , which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. ]

[Oct. 27 - Last day to submit revised 1st paper. Attach previous version with my comments.]

31 - Glück, rest of poems in Averno, focusing esp. on the title poem and "Persephone the Wanderer" (second version)

NOV. 2 - Jorie Graham, from The Dream of the Unified Field: "The Way Things Work," "The Geese," "Mind," "Reading Plato," "Salmon," "History," "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body" (from Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts and from Erosion). Excerpt from Graham video.

Link to image of Signorelli's "Resurrection of the Flesh"

7 - Graham, "History" (from 11/2 readings) + "Self-Portrait as the Gesture between Them," "Self- Portrait as Apollo and Daphne," and "Self-Portrait as Hurry and Delay"from The End of Beauty. Excerpt from Graham video. Critical Excerpts.

9 - Graham, "Self-Portrait as Hurry and Delay" (from 11/7 readings) + "Imperialism" from The End of Beauty; "Fission" and "From the New World" from Region of Unlikeness.

14 - Graham, "Imperialism" from The End of Beauty; "Picnic" and "The Phase After History" from Region of Unlikeness. Excerpt from Graham video.

16 - Graham, "The Phase After History" from Region of Unlikeness and excerpt from Graham video (cont.); "The Dream of the Unified Field" from Materialism; xerox of "The Complex Mechanism of the Wave" (2001). Critical Excerpts.

[THANKSGIVING BREAK — 5:30 p.m., Nov. 17 - 26]

28 - Rita Dove, from American Smooth: Frontispiece definitions + footnote on p. 139; note about section epigraphs on p. 142; all poems in the section called "Fox Trot Fridays" (13-40) + footnote on p. 139; all poems in section called "Not Welcome Here" (41-70) + footnote on pages 139 and 140.   Dove homepage. Excerpts from reviews and interviews. Excerpts from Rita Dove readings and her interview with Bill Moyers.

30 - Dove - from American Smooth: discuss comments on selected poems for 11/28 + "Castle Walk," "La Chapelle," "Ripont," "Twelve Chairs" (71-85) and footnote on p. 140. Rita Dove dance videos, if available.

[Friday, Dec. 1 - Final Paper due by 4:30 p.m.]

DEC. 5 - Dove, from American Smooth: "Blues In Half-Tones, 3/4 Time" (87-113) and footnote on p. 140; poems in final section, "Evening Primrose" (115-37).

7 - Final Dove discussion + Graham on Bishop; Glück on Plath; Dove on Brooks (xeroxes). Conclusions. Course evaluations.

9 - Saturday - by 5 p.m. - E-mail a copy of the outline of your presentation to everyone listed below. Include with your outline the titles of any key poems you refer to extensively in your paper. If these poems are from books other than those used in this course, you need to e-mail copies of the poems themselves along with your outline.

mares@sbc.edu, briggs07@sbc.edu, carey07@sbc.edu, figueiredo08@sbc.edu, leonard08@sbc.edu, patt09@sbc.edu, srodriguez08@sbc.edu, sangillo07@sbc.edu, teachey@sbc.edu, awilliams09@sbc.edu

10 - Sunday - 1:30-4:30 (at the latest):  Presentations

[READING DAY — Dec. 9.  EXAMS — Dec. 10 - 15]

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