Creative Writer as Critical Reader: Ambiguity and Poetic Form | Fanning | M 3:30-7:10p |
Impossible word, "ambiguity," but it points to the "room to puzzle" that makes a text worth considering more than once. Mostly we'll be reading (and rereading) poems by Alice Fulton, Russell Edson, Thomas Lux, Les Murray, and others, but we may also consider some visual art, prose passages, even social interactions. After all, understanding ambiguities is both an aesthetic and a practical matter. I hope that lends a little heat to our investigations. Several short response papers, one long final paper.