ENGL 286 H02 30314

EngLit, Humanities, AIU

Poetry from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent. CL: 2020.

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**Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent**What new, interdisciplinary poetry forms and media are available for contemporary readers and what reading practices and poetic politics do they generate? This class explores collage poems, electronic poetry, interactive poetic games, search engine poems, cyborg poetry, multi-media poetry, erasure and palimpsest poetry that selectively excerpts a source text, poetic sculptures and installations, altered books, concrete and visual poetry, a children’s book poetry unit, conceptual poetry, comics poetry, eco-poetry, and biopoetry involving living organisms. Possible authors include Eve L. Ewing, Claudia Rankine (Citizen: An American Lyric), Eduardo Kac (Genesis, The Eighth Day, “Biopoetry”), Robert Grenier (Sentences), Tom Phillips (A Humument), Jason Nelson (game game game and again game), Joy Priest, Sun Yung Shin (Unbearable Splendor), Margaret Rhee, Darren Wershler (the tapeworm foundry), Porpentine, and Paisley Rekdal (West: A Translation). We’ll read selected poems as well as several poetry books and hypertexts. There will be two in-class exams on vocabulary terms and close reading passages, as well as critical and creative quizzes, and a final creative/critical project responding to one of the course texts.