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Selected Unpublished Poems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!