English
619:003 / Spring 2005 / Susan Tichy / George Mason
University
CONCRETE
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What to do before today: Make your own system: two poems Start an e-mail Exquisite Corpse Collage. You will work on these for several weeks, but you must start now: they take time. Start collecting words & images for yourself or to share: use magazines, newspapers, the internet, photocopies, dictionaries. What to read before today: William Burroughs on cut-ups http://www.ubu.com/papers/burroughs_gysin.html Adrian Lurssen: "I'm Not Hollywood" A cut-up collage poem with notes on the writing and editing process Notes on collage in its more rational forms Notes from Leonard Diepeveen, on "quoting poems" Some introductory reading -- A Book of the Book:
Rothenberg: Poetics &
Ethnopoetics
Davidson: The Material Page Waldman: My Life as a Book Borges: The Cult of Books Class photocopies, Pack 1:Optional reading from War and Peace-- Judith Goldman: "Case
Sensitive"
Kari Edwards: "Oddly Shaped Four Times" Norma Cole: "From New Notebook" What we'll do in class / what to bring: Workshop: Your two "Make your own system" poems -- bring copies for your small group & for me. Be prepared to discuss differences between your two results. Discuss: Texture, gap, juxtaposition & voice in a poem including cut-ups; writing as "moving language around;" creating absence, creating presence. DO: Begin a pulled text
round-robin. For this poem, please bring 1-2 pages of nonfiction prose
from which you and others will pull text. Please don't bring poetry or
fiction. One copy is
enough. For Next Week: Draft of a poem from the round robin. Draft of a poem from canceled text. |
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