The Last of the Niedecker

Please read the rest of Lorine's poetry, and the essays in Radical Vernacular titled "Darkinfested" by Rae Armantrout (pg. 91) "Niedecker, Morris, and the Art of Work" by Elizabeth Willis (pg. 223) and "Take Oil/and Hum: Niedecker and Bunting" by Peter Quartermain (pg. 271).

If anyone would enjoy a study/work night, please let me (Katherine) know, I love to hear Niedecker read aloud. Good luck with your papers/projects!

Radical Vernacular for Middle Niedecker

Sorry for the late post (the essays aren't too long, but they're interesting):

Mary Pinard, "Niedecker's Grammar of Flooding" (21)

Patrick Pritchett, "How to Do Things with Nothing: Lorine Niedecker Sings the Blues" (91)

Middle Niedecker

from the Collected:

1945-1956

1957-1959

1960-1964

1965-1967

Stay tuned for an assignment from Radical Vernacular.

Early Niedecker

From the Collected Works

Please read:

Life and Writing
Poems of 1928-1936
(23-79)
Poems of 1936-1945
(85-121)

Please include the finishing poems of the "New Goose" manuscript
(125-136)

From Radical Vernacular

Please Read:
Eleni Sikelianos:
Life Pops from a Music Box Shaped Like a Gun: Dismemberments and Mendings in Niedicker's Figurines
(31)

Lisa Robertson: In Phonographic Deep Song: Sounding Niedecker
(83)

Please check back by Wednesday for possible additions,


As always post once by Sunday, April 18th.


Thanks!

Late Oppen Readings

For next Monday, as you may recall, there will be no required blog posting (feel free to post if you please).

Read for Monday:

From the Collected:

Seascape: Needle's Eye
Myth of the Blaze
Primitive
Uncollected Published Poems
Selected Unpublished Poems

And From the Daybooks:

Daybook V

Feel free to read/disregard the other daybooks.

Also, here are some poets who have been influenced by Oppen's poetry, provided to us by Penn Sound:

Rae Armantrout:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Armantrout.php#9-20-07

Michael Heller:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.php

Charles Bernstein:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bernstein-readings.html#3-14-09

Thingness

Didn't really read more than a paragraph but seemed relevant if you're up for it. Have a great week!

http://speakingofpoems.blogspot.com/2010/04/thinginess.html

Middle Oppen

Collected Prose:

Daybooks I & II



Collected Poetry:

The Materials
This In Which
Of Being Numerous



Make sure to give special attention to Of Being Numerous.


Also, as we are going into spring break, post once by Sunday, March 28. And twice overall by Sunday, April 4.

Early Oppen

George Oppen

New Collected Poems (Davidson)--

EDIT: The Introduction by Davidson and the Preface by Weinberger
(Sorry for the late addition/edit, it was unintentionally missed)

Discrete Series (1934) 3-35

Uncollected -- 291-309

...

313-314 (Stop at a Laced Gaiter)

Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers


Introduction -- 1

Three Poets -- 23


Please read and post once by Sunday, 21st.

Reznikoff, Part the Third

To read for class on 15 March:

By the Well of Living and Seeing

Jews in Babylonia

Last Poems

Appendix: Obiter Dicta

By Wednesday (hopefully) we'll have copies of Holocaust available, in Janet's mailbox in LA 208.


Don't forget to post by midnight on Sunday, and also, have your project proposal ready.

Reznikoff part two

For this week read:

In Memoriam

Separate Way

Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down

Inscriptions


Post by Sunday night, happy reading!

Charles Reznikoff

Reading assignments from
The Poems of Charles Reznikoff
(ed. Seamus Cooney):

Rhythms

Rhythms II

Poems

A Fifth Group of Verse

Israel

Jerusalem the Golden

Performances of "A"-24

If you hop over to the PennSound page for Louis Z, there are several performances of "A"-24, the first of which was at Temple in 1972.

Cheers,
C

Late Z.: Assgnt.

Scroggins 380–396, 442–459

The Catullus excerpts from the selected

All of 80 Flowers (copies will be available in Janet's box)

Gamut

A-23 from Selected

A section of A-24 (copies will be available in Janet's box)

To get full credit you must:
Post once by the 14th and at least twice by the 21st.


Thanks!

Zukofsky out loud

http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/2009/09/just-begun-to-learn-poemtalk-22.html

An interesting post that has links to Zuk's recordings on PennSound as well as a discussion of "Anew" poem 12.

Middle Zukofsky/Scroggins Visit Assignment

Read for next week's class:

L/Z Selected Poems
pp. 22-73, focusing on Anew 12, 20, 21, 22 and 4 Other Countries
pp. 90-116, ("A" 9-16) - focus on 9, 11, 12, but also read 15/16
pp. 152-154 "A Foin Lass Bodders"

Scroggins
238-52 (Analysis of "A" 9-12)
262-98 (bio 1952-60)
368-79 (Translation)

A reminder, the schedule for next week is different. We have a lecture at 3:40 in LA 208, then a break before reconvening at Papa Joe's, 6 p.m.

Definitely focus on the poetry so we can take advantage of Scroggins' expertise.

Early Zukofsky: The Assignment

Scroggins: pp 48-155, 175-198
Bernstein's intro to the Selected Louis Zukofsky
"A Statement for Poetry"

Poems:
"The Mantis"

From the Selected:

"not much more than being"
"crickets"
"snows' night's wind on the windows rattling"



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I'm not really [happy as] a lecturer, and things may have gone by pretty swiftly yesterday, so if you want to talk about "sincerity" or "objectification" or "Sincerity and Objectification," here's the place to do it.