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ENGL053-01-S13 (SPRING 2013)
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S13 - ENGL053.01 - Core: Modern American Poetry
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English 53 Modern American Poetry GENERAL RESOURCE MATERIALS
BLOG for Modern American Poetry English 53
Campus Pack Blog
GUIDELINES FOR PAPER #3
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CITING SOURCES for Paper #3
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English 53 syllabus and info on course requirements (NOTE: DOWNLOAD THIS FILE TO YOUR COMPUTER; IT HAS ALL THE WEEKLY READING ASSIGNMENTS, INCLUDING WORKING LINKS FOR ACCESS TO ONLINE MATERIALS.) For other online links, see the materials posted below.
GUIDELINES FOR PAPER #1
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Blog Post sign-up list (as of Feb. 26)
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creative projects sign-up list (as of Feb. 26)
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WIKI for English 53 Modern American Poetry
Campus Pack Wiki
News forum
An A essay, on Frank O'Hara's "A Step Away from Them"
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An A essay, on Angel Haze and Drake
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An A essay, on Williams' "Descent"
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An A essay, on Angel Haze and Drake
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an A essay on Dickinson
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an A essay on Plath's "Tulips"
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Topic 1
Jan. 21: Introduction to the Course
Dickinson, poems #613 and 883
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Whitman, There Was a Child Went Forth
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Emerson, The Poet (excerpts and commentary)
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Ammons readings
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O'Hara on his poetry
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Rich on why poetry is necessary (mp3 file)
URL
Daisy Fried, Women's Poetry
File
RR Phillips readings
File
Topic 2
Jan. 28:
(Mostly) Recent Poets: Contrasting visions of Nature
PS's Tips on poetic meter & music
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PS's Study Questions for most of this week's poems
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Emerson "The Poet" excerpts and study questions
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Ammons readings (3 items; also read "Corson's Inlet" in our anthology
File
Merrill's Christmas Tree
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RR Phillips poems (focus on Sheep Meadow)
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Topic 3
Feb. 4:
Recent Poets:
Poetic Justice / Historic Atrocities I
Plath reads Daddy
URL
A fine New Yorker essay on Plath
URL
Levine poems and commentary
File
Rich discusses Trying to Talk With a Man
URL
Leong, Aerogrammes
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Espada, Alabanza
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Apiary magazine link
URL
Topic 4
Feb. 11:
Recent Poets:
Poetic Justice / Historic Atrocities II
link to anthology site on Angel Island poetry and background info
URL
two Rukeyser poems and commentary, re "The Book of the Dead"
File
link to anthology site on Japanese American haiku written in WWII internment camps
URL
on 2 elements of many haiku: the "cutting word" and the seasonal reference
URL
Topic 5
Feb. 18:
American Songbook I
PS's tips on listening to words & music together
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on hip hip rhyming, prosody, etc.
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PS's Tips on poetic meter & music
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Queen Latifah and Daddy-O, The Pros
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Lauryn Hill, Doo Wop (That Thang)
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Erykah Badu
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digable planets, Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
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Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg
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Eminem, Sing for the Moment
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June Jordan, 2 poems (including one on Eminem)
File
Jay-Z and Kanye West
File
Angel Haze and Drake
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A famous Elizabethan male/female debate about love (the passionate shepherd and the nymph's reply)--to go with Drake/Haze poems
URL
Santigold, Disparate Youth
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on gender roles in recent pop, including Madonna, Nicki Minaj
URL
Joni Mitchell, 2 songs' lyrics
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Joni Mitchell's Little Green (m4a)
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Bruce Springsteen performs Thunder Road (solo acoustic, live)
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Taylor Swift, Red
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Topic 6
Feb. 25:
The
Beats and Other Hipsters, 1950s and after, I
Ginsberg reading part of Howl, Chicago 1959
URL
O'Hara on his poetry
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Frank O'Hara, Having a Coke with You (text)
File
O'Hara reads Having a Coke with You
URL
Vendler on O'Hara
File
Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred (1 of 2)
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Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred (2 of 2)
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Rukeyser reflecting on the Beats
URL
Jayne Cortez performs "I Am New York City"
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Topic 7
March 4:
The
Beats and Other Hipsters, 1950s and after, II
(see the resources and assignments for the previous week)
Topic 8
March 18:
Early 20th Century Modernism Makes It New, I: Williams and Hughes
Williams translates Neruda's "Ode to My Socks," 1958
File
Topic 9
March 25:
Modernism Makes It New, II: Frost and Stevens
Recent brief New Yorker essay on Frost
URL
Frost and Stevens--musical exercises
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Mapping U.S. Nature poetry from Emerson to Frost & Stevens to Ammons and others
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Topic 10
April 1:
The American Songbook II
PS's tips on listening to words & music together
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Sister O M Terrell sings Swing Low Sweet Chariot
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info on Swing Low Sweet Chariot
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Patsy Cline lyrics, I Fall to Pieces
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Patsy Cline sings I Fall to Pieces
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Billie Holiday lyrics to 2 songs
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Billie Holiday sings Billie's Blues
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Billie Holiday sings God Bless the Child
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Richard Lalli Sings Fascinating Rhythm
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Richard Lalli Sings What Is This Thing Called Love?
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Forte on What Is This Thing Called Love? (Porter) and How Little We Know (Carmichael)
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Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics to 2 songs (see also Forte pdf)
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Fred Astaire sings the Way You Look Tonight, from the movie Swing Time (includes lyric + link)
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Cole Porter's lyrics for I Get a Kick Out of You
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Frank Sinatra sings I Get a Kick Out of You
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Sondheim, Into the Woods lyrics (2 songs: Stay With Me and On the Steps of the Palace)
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Sondheim, Stay With Me
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Sondheim, On the Steps of the Palace
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Miranda, lyrics for opening song from In the Heights
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Miranda, In the Heights, opening song introducing the characters
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Miranda, lyrics for Breathe
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Miranda, Mandy González sings Breathe
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Miranda, lyrics to $96,000
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Miranda, the In the Heights ensemble sings $96,000
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live music video: recording $96,000 (for the In the Heights cast album)
URL
Topic 11
April 8:
Modernism Makes It New, III: Moore and H.D.
Moore and H.D. readings
Page
Some notes on Moore's "Paper Nautilus"
File
Topic 12
April 15:
Modernism Makes It New, IV: Pound and Eliot and Crane
Eliot's music in 4 Quartets--a sampling
File
Pound & Crane--sample lines to scan
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Topic 13
April 22:
Whitman and Dickinson I
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April 29:
Whitman and Dickinson II
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