Sections offered FALL 2022:
#32129 |
RICHARD CECIL |
MW 3:00 PM–4:15 PM |
HU 108 |
CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Class meets In Person. For more information visit https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
In this section of H232, we will read seven books of poetry–two by great, dead 20th century poets, and four by contemporaries whose work promises to place them among the great dead poets of the future. The writing required for the course will be poems–one for each poet we read and discuss. On alternate weeks we will discuss student poems in a writer’s workshop format, so that the course will be equally divided between reading and writing.
This course should interest two types of students–poets, or future poets, who wish to deepen and broaden their knowledge of contemporary poetry, and readers and critics who wish to study the methods by which a poem is put together.
Course texts:
Elizabeth Bishop THE COMPLETE POEMS 1927-1979
Robert Hayden COLLECTED POEMS
Yusef Komunyakaa MAGIC CITY
Maura Stanton IMMORTAL SOFA
Adrian Matejka SOMEBODY ELSE SOLD THE WORLD
Billy Collins WHALE DAY
Ted Kooser RED STILTS