READING:
--from "Discrete Series" by George Oppen (JR)
-- "Of Being Numerous" by George Oppen (BB)
-- "Mantis" by Zukofsky (JR 246)
-- "Mantis, An Interpretation" by Zukofsky (JR 248)
 
WRITING:
-- write a piece that works to think with the things as they exist.  
 
TERMS/ISSUES:
Sincerity, objectification
 
 
 
Sept 28 NO CLASS
Oct 5 The shipwreck of the singular
Writing, is the detail, not mirage, of seeing, of thinking with things as they exist, and of directing them along a line of melody. --George Oppen
 
“The end of masterpieces . . . the beginning of testimony” –Robert Duncan
Oct 12 Poet as explorer, mathematician, condenser, anthropologist or observer
READING:
--from "Route" by George Oppen
-- "Poet's Work" by Lorine Niedecker
--from For Paul and Other Poems by Lorine Niedecker
--from "A-9" by Louis Zukofsky
--from Anew by Louis Zukofsky
-- "Song," "The Measure," and "Some Afternoon by Robert Creeley from WORDS
-- "My Problem" by Rae Armantrout
 
 
WRITING:
-- write a piece where you act not like a poet or a memoirist, but as an explorer, mathematician, condenser, anthropologist or observer
 
TERMS/ISSUES:
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