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This course will focus on the work of a handful of postmodern poets whose work and poetics
exhibit a range of responses to the cultural and political dominants of contemporary life.
Their stylistic and socio-cultural range will give us the opportunity to consider how
language and poetic form intersect with, reflect, resist, and refigure one's experience of
the world and of reading itself. Each of the authors variously engages with ideology,
cultural memory, and identity in creative and sometimes, challenging ways. Conducted in a
seminar format, the course will require students to do some independent research and to
participate in the 'teaching' of the class. A final seminar paper will culminate a
sequence of presentations, research, and informal-writing assignments.
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