Week 2: The Black Mountain Poets

Tuesday, January 26

• In class
  • Characteristics of Modernism:
    • Homework:
      • "Oread" by H.D.
      • "Preludes" by T.S. Eliot
      • "Harlem" by Langston Hughes
      • "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
      • "Buffalo Bill 's" by E.E. Cummings
    • High Modernism:
      • The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
      • Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
  • Black Mountain Poetics:
    • "Projective Verse" by Charles Olson
    • Charles Olson's bio and at least two of his poems.
    • Robert Duncan bio and at least two of his poems.

• Homework:
  • Readings:
    • Robert Creeley's bio and two of his poems.
    • Denise Levertov's bio and two of her poems.
    • "Robert Creeley's Radical Poetics" by Marjorie Perloff
  • Writing:
    • Post a brief discussion (1-2 paragraphs) of the main principles of projective verse as seen in one of Olson or Duncan's poems.

Thursday, January 28

• In class:
  • Robert Creeley's bio and two of his poems.
  • Denise Levertov's bio and two of her poems.
  • "Robert Creeley's Radical Poetics" by Marjorie Perloff
  • "Some Notes on Organic Form" by Denise Levertov
  • Writing:
    • Post a brief discussion (1-2 paragraphs) of the main principles of projective verse as seen in one of Olson's or Duncan's poems.
• Homework:
  • Readings:
    • "San Francisco Renaissance" and "Beat Poets" in Princeton Encyclopedia
    • Gary Snyder's bio and two of his poems
    • Allen Ginsberg's bio and two of his poems
  • Writing:
    • Post a brief discussion (1-2 paragraphs) of the main principles of projective verse as seen in one of Levertov's or Creeley's poems.