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Modernist Women Poets:
Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker
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Week One: Jan 27: Introduction
Though in the past this course has begun with Mina Loy, the bookstore tells me we won't have the Loy book in time. So we will start with Moore. This requires us to plunge rather suddenly into dense thickets of verbal and visual perception. Bring your machete and your magnifying glass and you'll be fine.
Weeks 2-5: Marianne Moore
Week Two: Feb 3: Verbal, Visual, Valorous: An Introduction to Everything
Week Three: Feb 10: Assemblage & Collage
Week Four: Feb 17: Gender & Authority
Turn in a draft of either your paper or your anthology introduction
Week Five: Feb 24: The Clear Idea: Later Poems
Sample
papers & anthologies
Weeks 6-9: Mina Loy
Week Six: March 3: Futurism x Feminism / Moore papers & anthologies due
Week Seven: March 10: Songs to Johannes
Spring Break: No Class March 17
Beginning here, dates have been revised due to the snow day:
Week Eight: March 31: Portraiture, Abstraction, & Collage
Week Nine: April 7: English as a Second Language
Weeks 10-13: Lorine Niedecker
Week Ten: April 14: "Fewer Words, More Quiet" / Loy papers & anthologies due
Week Eleven: April 21: "Right down among 'em": Niedecker & "the Folk"
Week Twelve: April 28: The Evolutional Sublime
Week Thirteen: April 5: Final Niedecker discussion based on presentations of Niedecker papers
Niedecker papers & anthologies due
