Speech, Speed and Structures of Voicing in Poetry and Prose
Instructor: Anselm Berrigan
Date: Saturday 18 September 2010, from 1pm to 5pm.
Course Description: Among the questions taken up in this discussion will be how to map and/or sense the interrelations of material, voice, and structure while writing, editing, and reading. Material at the level of the syllable sound, voice as phenomenon of generating and arranging material, and structure referring to both the continuous structure of the work in progress and performance as well as the structure of the “finished” piece. Participants who sign up will be sent two longer unpublished poems by Berrigan to consider ahead of the class, and a small set of suggested readings will also be available. The hope is that the discussion will be propulsive toward the development of longer works by participants (with “longer” meaning anywhere from 2 – 200 or more pages, depending on one’s experience and practice), as well as able to take on the question of how speed – within the acts of writing, reading, processing, editing, thinking – functions on several levels within any individual’s practice. Must speed necessarily be fast?
Fee: $150.00