Spring 2004 Calendar [POST-BREAK REVISION]

3/15

Vernacular II:

Hughes

Johnson

Brown

Sandberg

Lindsay

Jamie on Hughes
Michelle on Brown/Johnson

Wesling, Donald and Tadeusz Slavek. "Vachel Lindsay and the American Bardic." Literary Voice. 144-147. [Theory, History: Lindsay through Beats]

Schultz, Susan. "Local Vocals: Hawai'i's Pidgin Literature, Performance, and Postcoloniality." Close Listening. 343-359. [Performance, Dialect, Politics, and Social]

Cusic, Don.  "Vachel Lindsay" The Poet as Performer. [History]

Cusic, Don.  "Carl Sandburg" The Poet as Performer. [History]

3/22

Performance

Antin x {see “What am I doing Here}

Cage

Rothenberg x {see “Poems”}

Lisa on Cage; Michelle on Perelman; Jennifer on Antin

{For Cage, see also exs. 1- “Graphical Mesostics for M” at http://www.ubu.com/historical/cage/cage.html}

Perloff, Marjorie. "The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's 'What You Say." Sound States. 129-149. [Cage, Language v Music]

Rothenberg, Jerome. "The Poetics of Performance" x

Perelman, Bob. "Speech Effects: Talk as Genre."  Close Listening. 200-216.[Talk, Antin et al]

{Reserve also has “Dialogue on Oral Poetry”}

3/29

Radical Modernist Extensions

Taggart x

***PERFORMANCE 3/30 – 7pm***

Howe x {Select Howe Poems}

Renae on Howe; Lisa on Taggart (essay);

EXTRA TAGGART : Rhythm and Blues Singer and others in Flashpointmag.com

http://www.flashpointmag.com/index5.htm  ; Chicago Breakdown, Facture 3  http://www.webdelsol.com/Facture/poems/JohnTaggart.pdf

"Performance" Critical Terms for Literary Study. X

Howe, Susan. "Ether Either." Close Listening. 111-130.

4/5

Beat:

Ginsberg x

Waldman x

Kerouacx

BRING DRAFTS

Renae on Waldman; Jennifer on Hayles; Andrea on Davidson; Kris on Kerouac

Davidson, Michael. "Orality and the Tapevoice of Contemporary Poetics." Sound States.  97-128. [Tape and aesthetics: Olson, Ginsberg, Antin, Benson, Anderson]

Corman, Cid. "Speech: As it Falls: Is Poetry"

Halyes, N. Katherine. "Voices Out of Bodies: AudioTape and The Production of Subjectivity." Sound States. 74-96. [Technology, Burroughs]

{Reserve also has “Logic of Spontinaety” on Kerouac}

4/14-*

No Monday Classes

Peer Revision – Exchange and Commenting on Drafts

4/19

Bernstein x

Mackey x

 Kris on Bernstein

REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS

Perloff, Marjorie. "The Changing Face of Common Intercourse." [Sound, form, natural speech and popular culture]

Mackey, Nathaniel. "Cante Moro." Sound States. 194-212. [Lorca, cross-cultural music influencing 1950s- US poetry]