UNIT 7: FOUND & “SOUGHT” POETRY
Nov 23 the documentary poem
READING:
Art is action, but it does not cause action: rather it prepares us for thought.
Art is intellectual, but it does not cause thought: rather it prepares us for thought.
Art is not a world,
UNIT 6: ERASURE & ALTERED BOOKS
Nov 9
***bring a book to class to alter/erase, destroy, transform
***bring scissors, white-out, glue and permanent markers
READING:
-- Untitled Man Ray
-- from The Humument Tom Philips
-- from RAD I OS
UNIT 5: OULIPO, POTENTIAL LITERATURE
Oct 26 The Analytic: art as retrieval
READING:
-- "Oulipo: The First Manifesto" by Le Lionnais
Prisoner's Restriction: a russian con's economic missive Ian Monk
-- The Poet as Outlaw Harry Matthews
-- "Summary" from A Void Georges
UNIT 4: SURREALISM & DADA
Oct 19
READING:
--from The History of Surrealism Maurice Nadeau
--First Manifesto of Surrealism
--"Yellow Manifesto" by Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, etc.
-- "Dada is American" by Walter
UNIT 3: OBJECTIVISM
Sept 28 NO CLASS
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:
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