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2024-2025 Autumn

• ENGLISH 192V | 5 units | UG Reqs: None | Class # 29794 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Session: 2024-2025 Autumn 1 | In Person
  09/23/2024 - 12/06/2024 Tue 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at 50-51P
  Notes: PREREQUISITE: Introductory poetry course. Students must submit Course Preference Form to be considered for enrollment. If selected for enrollment, students must attend the first class meeting to retain their roster spot. Course Pref Form here: https://forms.gle/5Nen6G2kMdKYXpcX6. TAUGHT BY: Mohr Visiting Poet L. Lamar Wilson in Autumn 2024-25. CLASS TITLE: A Documentary Poetics of P(l)(e)ace: How Syntax and Place Intersect in Wartime Verse CLASS DESCRIPTION: As we process our own staggering moment that¿s fraught with the ubiquity of human conflict at home and abroad, we will explore how writers¿ sense of place intersects with their narrative, lyrical, and syntactical choices as they envision peace during times of war and social unrest. We will ground ourselves in the study of formative texts by Eleazer, Samuel Occum, Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Yellow Bird, Walt Whitman, Zitkála-¿á, Jose Martí, Lucien B. Watkins, T.S. Eliot, H.D., Marianne Moore, Claude McKay, Pablo Neruda, Melvin Tolson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Xuân Di¿u, Seamus Heaney, Mahmoud Darwish, Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Forché, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shahib Nye, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and others, created, respectively, in the wake of America¿s pre-colonial and early colonial wars with indigenous, French, and British peoples, its first civil war and involvement in postbellum conflicts in Cuba and Mexico, the twentieth century¿s two world wars in Europe and Asia, subsequent conflicts in Vietnam and Ireland, and the inextricably tied wars on poverty and drugs at the turn of the millennium, whose failures have shaped the looming second civil war that has shrouded the twenty-first century¿s digital disinformation divide. Then, we will examine the ecopoetics in two traditions that have shaped this century¿s art: Forché¿s ¿poetics of witness¿ and the emerging school known as ¿documentary poetics.¿ Students will select four recent collections that may include those by Oliver Baez Bendorf, Tarfia Faizullah, Vievee Francis, Roy G. Guzmán, Tyehimba Jess, Saretta Morgan, Brandon Som, Jake Skeets, Frank X. Walker, C.D. Wright, Mai Der Vang, and Jake Adam York. We will historicize these collection¿s epic lineages, ecopoetics, and wordcraft as we refine our own.
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