The Modernist and Postmodernist Long Poem_. This course will survey one of the most amorphous but prestigious genres in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry, the "long poem." To teach ourselves how to recognize and analyze "long poems," we will begin by looking at three excerpts from longer works: Christopher Okigbo's _Silences_, Ezra Pound's _Cantos_ I-XVII, and H.D.'s _These Walls Do Not Fall_. Afterwards, we will go on to read a series of other examples: Basil Bunting's _Briggflatts_, Susan Howe's _That This_, Nathaniel Mackey's _Song for the Andoumboulou_, Ron Silliman's _Tjanting_, Gertrude Stein's _Stanzas in Meditation_, and Melvin Tolson's _Libretto for the Republic of Liberia_. Assignments will likely include explication, annotation, commentary, and expository prose (a seminar paper).