[New-Poetry] deep image syllabus

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Pierre Joris : Graduate (& 2 Undergraduate) Seminars
 
ENG450: Special Topics: Deep Image & After (most recently: Fall '97)
This course will focus on one of the richest and most explorative movements of contemporary American poetry. If classical 20th century European literary movements (such as Futurism, Surrealism, etc.) have characteristically been well-defined & definable, postmodern movements in the US in the second half of this century have, with rare exceptions, been more diffuse & difficult to pinpoint. This course will study one of these — "Deep Image" or "the Caterpillar poets" as it has also been known— by examining its historical roots, its poetic practice & theory and its geographical & poetic dissemination, to help us situate its aims & methods, as well as its practioners, in the wider context of contemporary American and world poetry.
To set the historical frame, all students should have read Jed Rasula's The American Poetry Wax Museum before the course starts. We will then go on to read work by the following poets: Jerome Rothenberg, David Antin, Robert Kelly, Diane Wakoski, Armand Schwerner, Clayton Eshleman, Diane Di Prima & Rochelle Owens. (Books available in bookstore). 
• Students are expected to give in-class presentations of a chosen author or problematic. 
•Evaluation will be based on these presentations as well as on two projects (midterm & final) that can/should integrate critical/theoretical reading of the course and their own (relevant) creative work. 
•All students need to have a VAX account & should familiarize themselves with the DEC NOTES conferencing program before the course starts. (This conferencing program, beyond enabling students & instructor to interact outside the classroom, will also allow a number of the poets studied to be electronically available to respond to class discussion & student queries.)

BOOK LIST


Jed Rasula: The American Poetry Wax Museum, NCTE (NCTE stock number: 01380-3050)
Jerome Rothenberg: New Selected Poems, New Directions, 0-8112-0997-0
Jerome Rothenberg: Pre-Faces, New Directions, 0-8112-0786-2 
David Antin: Selected Poems 1963-1973, Sun & Moon, 1-55713-058-2
Robert Kelly: Red Actions, Selected Poems 1960-1993, Black Sparrow Press, 0-87685-977-5
Diane Wakowski: Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987, Black Sparrow Press, 
Clayton Eshleman: The Name-Encanyoned River Selected Poems 1960-1985, Black Sparrow Press, ISBN: 0876856520
Clayton Eshleman: Novices; Marsilio Publishers; ISBN: 1568860366
Rochelle Owens: New and Selected Poems 1961-1994, Junction Press. 
Diane Di Prima: Pieces of a Song : Selected Poems, City Lights, ISBN: 0872862372ENG450 

Class Reader — available from InfoPro

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF READER

TEXTS:
— Various "Deep Image" manifestos, responses & magazines:
Trobar # 1
Trobar # 2
Trobar # 3
Jerome Rothenberg: "The Deep Image Is The Threatened Image"
(in: Poems From The Floating World vol. 4)
Jerome Rothenberg & Robert Creeley: An Exchange
(in: Kulchur 6)
— Robert Kelly: Statement
— Early Jerome Rothenberg poems
— Jerome Rothenberg/David Rathman:
"Six Pictures for the Granary"
— Jerome Rothenberg: Vort interviews
— Kevin Power: "An Image is an Image is an Image"
—Eric Mottram: "Where the Real Song begins"
— Diane Wakoski: "Jerome Rothenberg's Deep Image"
— Diane Wakoski: "Form is an Extension of Content"
— Armand Schwerner section
SELECTED POEMS:
The Lightfall
Muck The Fuck
The Magic Runner
The Red Horses of the Sun
The Violence Around us
Constellations
Tablets I, II, X, XV
Interviews from VORT magazine (issue # 8)
— David Antin: "Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching The Present in American Poetry"
— David Antin: Vort Interview


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