Chapter 8 - The New York Poets & the Rise of Postmodernism

Tuesday, November 5

• John Ashbery, "The Instruction Manual" (N)
• Frank O'Hara, "The Day Lady Died," "Why I am Not a Painter" (both in N); bio (P121); "Steps" (P127-28); "Personal Poem" (P126)
• Kenneth Koch, "Mending Sump," "Variations on a Theme by Williams" (both in N)
• "pastiche" (W)
• Ed Dorn's parody of Williams
• Charles North, "A Note to Tony Towle (After WS)" (P398)
• review of David Lehman's book, The Last Avant-Garde
• Shawn Walker, "Birthday on a Bridge" (W)

Wednesday, November 6 - Film: William Carlos Williams

• This film is airing on Channel 16, SAS-TV, on the Resnet Video Network
• This film is part of the Voices & Visions series of one-hour documentaries on American poets: Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath. T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Robert Lowell, and Wallace Stevens.
  MMETs at Penn owns these tapes.

Thursday, November 7

• William Carlos Williams, "Portrait of a Lady" (W129), The pure products of America / go crazy" or "To Elsie" (W & W217-19)
• James Clifford's introduction to The Predicament of Culture
• Commentary on "the white trash" mentioned in "To Elsie" (W)
• recording of a live webcast symposium on "To Elsie" led by Al Filreis, Bob Perelman, Kristen Gallagher, and Shawn Walker with thirty far-flung virtual participants from the Kelly Writers House on July 8, 1999
• Victor Hernandez Cruz, "An Essay on William Carlos Williams" (P561)
• Charles Bernstein, "Wait" (P571)
• Introductory Information about the e-journal, Postmodern Culture (W)

Tuesday, November 12

• John Ashbery, "And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name" (B), "Some Trees" (B & W), "Hard Times" (N), "What Is Poetry?" (B & W), "The Grapevine" (W), "The One Thing That Can Save America" (N) & a student's imitative response to "What Is Poetry"
• Steven Robinson's paraphrase of "Some Trees"
• "ut pictura poesis" (W)

Thursday, November 14

• John Ashbery, continued
• Gary Soto, "How Things Work" (N)
• Gertrude Stein per John Ashbery from a 1957 review (W)
• Allen Ginsberg, "Is About" (1996)

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