| Title: | Adv. Workshop in Poetry |
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| Course Section Number: | ENG-312-01 |
| Department: | English |
| Description: | Walt Whitman thought of poetry as an extension of the body. "[T]his is no book," he writes of Leaves of Grass. "Who touches this touches a man." Emily Dickinson was equally visceral in her descriptions of verse: "[i]f I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." For both writers, poems carried a person into the world through a page. In Advanced Poetry Writing, you too will find a poetic self that is suitable for entry into the world. Workshops will allow us to hear, by way of careful critique, how our poems sound on a reader's tongue. Such work is inherently collaborative. (As Whitman notes: "it is you talking just as much as myself.") Readings in contemporary poetry will ensure that your influences extend beyond your peers. Craft lessons on meter, scansion, forms (rhetorical and stanzaic), tropes, free verse, and poetic movements will supplement our work. We are lucky, in ways that Whitman and Dickinson were not, to have such immediate access to feedback. We'll use that advantage to produce a chapbook-length manuscript of polished work (20+ pages), prefaced by a statement of our poetics. We'll also build a collaborative encyclopedia of poetic terms. The hope is that, when our semester is over, we'll say to each other what Emerson said to Whitman and might have said to Dickinson had he read her exquisite poems: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" (July 21, 1855). Prerequisites: English 110, English 212, or permission of the instructor (mongd@wabash.edu). |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 14, 2019 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/22/2019-05/02/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 01:10PM - 02:25PM, Lilly Library, Room LSEM
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| Faculty: | Mong, Derek |
| Requisite Courses: | ENG-212 |
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