Chapter 3 - The Reaction "against" Modernism: The Radical Thirties

Tuesday, October 8

• Stanley Burnshaw, "I, Jim Rogers" (W)
• Alfred Hayes, "In a Coffee Pot" (B)
• Isidor Schneider, "In a Hotel Lobby" (B), "To the Museums" (B); "Dawn" (W)
• A note on Edward Hopper
• poetic term: realism
• Edwin Rolfe, "Season of Death" (W)
• Meridel LeSueur on belief as action (1935)
• Genevieve Taggard, "Interior" (W)
• Ruth Lechlitner, "Lines for an Abortionist's Office" (W)
• Summary of the Sacco & Vanzetti Case (W)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Two Sonnets in Memory" (B & W)
• David Wolff, "August 22, 1927" (B)
• Summary of the Scottboro Boys Case (W)
• Muriel Rukeyser, "The Trial" (B), "Paper Anniversary" (N), "Metaphor to Action" (W) "Child & Mother" (B)
• Thomas McGrath, "War Resisters' Song" (W), "Once We Meant It" [circa 1985] (W)

Tuesday night at the Writers House ("Cafe 88"), October 8

• Louis Zukofsky, "The Immediate Aim" (B), "The men in the kitchens" (W)
• Kenneth Fearing, "Dirge" (B)
• George Oppen, "[the prudery of Frigidaire]" (brief excerpt from Oppen's book, Discrete Series) (B & W)
• George Oppen - two statements
• William Carlos Williams, "Yachts" (WCW 388-89), "The Sun Bathers" (WCW 371), "Item" (WCW 379), "To a Poor Old Woman" (WCW 383), "Late for Summer Weather" (WCW 384), "Proletarian Portrait" (WCW 384-5), "To Be Hungry Is to Be Great" (WCW 400), "A Poem for Norman MacLeod" (WCW 401) "terza rima" (W)

Wednesday, October 9 - Film, 8 PM, The Good Fight

• Information about The Good Fight

Thursday, October 10

• Summary of Spanish Civil War (W)
• Summary of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (W)
• Edwin Rolfe, "To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade" (B)
• Muriel Rukeyser, "Mediterranean" (B)
• Joy Davidman, "Near Catalonia" (W)
• Stephen Spender, "Thoughts During an Air Raid" (B)
• Genevieve Taggard, "Silence in Mallorca" (B)

Fall break

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