Chapter 8 - The New York Poets & the Rise of Postmodernism
Tues Nov 9 & Thurs Nov 11 - introduction to three
"New York
Poets"
- David Lehman,
excerpt
from The Last Avant-Garde
- John Asbhery profile
- John Ashbery, interview
- John Ashbery, "The
Instruction Manual"
- paper option #12
Ashbery's "The Instruction Manual" implicitly is critical of what might be
called "the ideology of
first-hand experience." In this paper, describe that position and then
state your position on what you think is Ashbery's
position. To what extent are you persuaded by Ashbery's (mostly
counter-intuitive) attitude toward experience?
- Frank O'Hara, biographical
profile
- on O'Hara's
"Personism" manifesto
- Frank O'Hara's energy per Ron
Silliman
- Frank O'Hara, "The Day Lady
Died"
- Frank O'Hara,
"Why
I am Not a Painter"
- Billie Holiday
- brief biography
- John Yau, "830 Fireplace Road"
- O'Hara, "Like"
- O'Hara,
"At
the Old Place"
- O'Hara, "Poem"
(recorded at Buffalo, 9/25/64; MP3)
- O'Hara per
Galway Kinnell in a review essay of 1958
- ut pictura poesis
- Ted Berrigan, sonnet XV from The
Sonnets
- Ted
Berrigan's poem "3 Pages"
- Ted
Berrigan's "3 Pages"
- Kenneth Koch,
"Variations
on a Theme by William Carlos Williams" (1962)
- Kenneth Koch,
"Mending
Sump" (1960)
- audio: Al
Filreis on three major
categories of
"New York Poets" verse: (1) anti-narrative, (2) non-narrative,
and (3) pastiche or appropriation
- notes on
Tom Phillips's A Humument: A Treated Victorian
Novel
- video: Al
Filreis on the art book; on
visual/textual/material appropriations; and on Tom Phillips' A
Humument: A Treated
Victorian Novel
- "pastiche"
- Lytle Shaw, "The
Confessions 2"
- Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man"
(Norton)
- Lytle Shaw explains
the connectoin between "The Confessions 2" and "The Snow Man"
- Lytle Shaw, "At the
Old Place"
- Juliana Spahr, "IntroductionIntroductionIntroduction"
- Tom Devaney, "Fifty
Lines for Al Filreis on his 50th Birthday" (March 2006)
- Tom Devaney, "Poem
(to Al Filreis)" published in Ars Poetica (April 2007)
- Tom Devaney,
"Trying to Live as
if It Were Morning"
- Tom Devaney reads
"Trying
to Live as if It Were Morning" (at the Writers House, Feb. 7, 2000)
supplemental/optional
readings:
- Lyle Shaw
on
O'Hara (Jacket magazine, 1999)
- Kenneth
Koch at the Writers House (1998)
- Shawn Walker, poetry reading,
recorded
from a live
webcast held on September 18, 1999 at the Kelly
Writers House
()
- Ed Dorn's parody of Williams
- review
of David Lehman's book, The Last Avant-Garde
Tues Nov 16 - Williams once more
Thur Nov 18 (plus extra session: same day 3-4:30 PM)- Ashbery and the
non-narrative
- John Ashbery, "Some Trees"
- Steven Robinson's paraphrase of
"Some Trees"
- Ashbery, "What Is Poetry"
- Juliana Spahr on how reading is
taught in school
- audio: Al
Filreis on aspects of the poetry of
Ashbery
- John Ashbery, "Hard
Times"
- John Ashbery, "The
One Thing That Can Save America"
- John Ashbery, interviewed by Al Filreis,
on his anthologized
poems and "The One Thing That Can Save America"
- John Ashbery, "The Grapevine"
- John Ashbery,
"Crossroads
in the Past"
- John Ashbery reads "Crossroads
in the Past"
- John Ashbery, "Novelty
Love Trot"
- paper option #13
Write a paper that accomplishes just this: an explanation (or
"translation" into your own plainest
words) of Ashbery's "The Grapevine."
- Cid Corman, several recent poems
supplemental/optional
readings:
- student report on Ashbery's
influence on four language poets
- John Ashbery, "If you Said You Would
Come With Me"
- recording of a conversation
with John Ashbery conducted by Al Filreis, March 2002
- Gary Soto, "How Things Work"
- Gertrude Stein per John Ashbery
from a 1957 review (W)
- Allen Ginsberg, "Is About" (1996)
Thurs Nov 18 - reading by Rae Armantrout at the Writers House 5 PM
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