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FORM OF POETRY Section 001 / Fall 2004 / Susan Tichy / Tuesay 7:20-10:00 / Place TBA THE VISUAL IN THE VERBAL, WEEKS 11-13
WEEK 12: TRANSLATING TECHNIQUES OF MODERN ART: CUBISM & COLLAGE
WHAT WE’LL COVER: Collage imports found materials into a painting (or poem)
and puts them to a new use while retaining our awareness of their original
This can take place on a large scale, as when Williams "pastes in" pieces
of local history in his long poem, Paterson, or on a small scale,
as when Moore "pastes in" bits of her reading or her mother's conversation.
"Collage" can also be used to describe methods of composition that juxtapose
bits of language together in a manner that resembles actual collage, though
everything in the poem was written by the poet. We will look at both kinds
of collage and at cubist poems ranging from Stein's fully abstract Tender
Buttons to Stevens' blackbird. READING: POEMS: Cubism: Stein: Picasso MODERN 178, Tender Buttons MODERN 180 (browse around in these poems & choose a favorite), Susie Asado 185, Guillaume Apollinaire MODERN 186, Preciosilla MODERN 186 Stevens: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird MODERN 244,
Domination of Black MODERN 243, Study of Two Pears 253 Williams: Portrait of a Lady MODERN 289, Queen-Ann's Lace MODERN 290, The Great Figure MODERN 291, Spring and All MODERN 290, Flowers by the Sea MODERN 297, The Botticellian Trees MODERN 297 Moore: The Fish MODERN 436, England MODERN 439, & Those Various Scalpels (on line) Cummings: begining MODERN 546 O'Hara: Why I Am Not a Painter CONTEMP 369 & poems handed
out in class Ashbery: The Tennis Court Oath CONTEMP 389, Farm Implements
and Rutabagas in a Landscape CONTEMP 393, Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror (very long, but introduce yourself to it) CONTEMP 395, Wet Casements
406 Harryette Mullen: from Trimmings & from S*PeRM**K*T,
passed out in class (these poems respond to Stein's Tender Buttons) Collage: Moore: An Octapus MODERN 441, To a Snail MODERN
446, & New York
(on line) Williams: from Book I of Paterson, MODERN beginning
on 304 Eliot: The Waste Land MODERN 474 Pound: from The Cantos LXXXI MODERN 380 Jones: from In Parenthesis MODERN 570 Robert Hayden: from Middle Passage, passed out in class Harryette Mullen: from Muse & Drudge, passed out in class ONLINE READING |