CONTEMPORARY POETRY (US Poetry Since WWII) | Reed | MW 12:30-2:20 | 13109 |
This course provides an overview of the kinds of poetry published in the United States since World War II. We will be looking at many of the genre's superstars--John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich--but we will be spending as much or more time with lesser known but no less fascinating figures-Charles Bernstein, Judy Grahn, Lyn Hejinian, and Etheridge Knight. We will be discussing the period's principle movements-the likes of the Beats, the Black Arts Movement, and Language Poetry--as well as concentrating on thematic topics, such as the flurry of anti-Vietnam War verse from the later 1960s.