The Attack of the Difficult Poems: Close Encounters with Poetics (Say, Do You Have a Poetics?)
Instructor: Charles Bernstein
Duration: November 6, 2010 12pm – 4:30pm
(a 3-hour class with a 1/2 hour break, followed by informal reception for the last hour).
A discussion of contemporary poetics, focusing on a set of short works of poetics submitted by each participant. This seminar class will start with a discussion of, responses to, and extensions from Bernstein’s new selected poems All the Whiskey in Heaven. A set of additional suggested readings and web sites will be provided. Each participant will submit a response to these readings, combined with (or in addition to) an articulation of their own poetics (speculations/orientations/interventions) — in whatever style preferred from journal entry to essay to list to polemic to poem. Submit these works by November 4; they will be distributed by email on Nov. 5, to be read before the seminar on the next day.
Required Texts: All the Whiskey in Heaven by Charles Bernstein (FS&G, 2010), as well as readings that will be supplied to students prior to the class.
Capacity: 12 Students
Fee: $250.00