Week 2: The Black Mountain School

Monday, January 20

• State holiday: MLK Day - class doesn't meet.

Wednesday, January 22

• In class:
  • Lecture and discussion on Black Mountain School
    • "Buffalo Bill 's" by E.E. Cummings.
    • "[from] Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" by William Carlos Williams
    • "Projective Verse" by Charles Olson.
    • Charles Olson and his poems here.
    • Charles Olson in PennSound
• Assignment:
  • Readings:
    • Robert Duncan's bio and poetry (in textbook or in the link provided). Duncan @ PennSound
    • Robert Creeley's bio and poetry (in textbook or in the link provided). Creeley @ PennSound
    • Denise Levertov's bio and poetry (in textbook or in the link provided). Levertov video
  • Writing:
    • See instructions for asynchronous class on Friday

Friday, January 24

• Asynchronous class - no meeting.
  • Write a 250-word analysis in which you discuss how the poetics of the Black Mountain School manifest in a poem by two out of three assigned poets: Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, or Denise Levertov. Post in our ASULearn discussion forum before 1:00 pm on Friday. Respond to 2 classmates in our forum before class on Monday.
• Assignment:
  • "San Francisco Renaissance" and "Beat Poets" in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
  • Gary Snyder's bio and two of his poems (in textbook or in the link provided)
  • Allen Ginsberg's bio and two of his poems (in textbook or in the link provided)