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.