For our class session on Thursday, 17 Jan 2012, please read pages 1-25 in Longenbach's The Resistance to Poetry. To ensure you read the material, I will administer a short quiz at the beginning of class that covers the basic concepts found over the course of these pages. Afterward, we will discuss the material.
Also, I want you to reread the Nick Sturm poems from ILK that we read in class on Tuesday and think about them with relation to the ideas Longenbach forwards in his text. There are some additional poems I want you to read from Sturm's What A Tremendous Time We're Having! found at the online jounrals iO and TYPO. When reading these poems, think about what lines could be considered meta-poetic statements (i.e. lines that address the poem's own construction) and how you might use them to explain what's happening in the poems. If you enjoy these selections, you can buy the entire series as a chapbook at iO Books.
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