Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself. Page numbers in parentheses locate poems in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry.
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August 29 |
Introduction |
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August 31 |
Kay Ryan, "Paired Things" (530-531), "Mirage Oases" (531), "A Cat/A Future" (531), "The Old Cosmologists" (532), "That Will to Divest" (532-533), "Drops in the Bucket" (533) |
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September 5 |
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, "The Paperweight" (571-572), "Signs" (572)
Rita Dove, "Parsley" (558-560)
Charles Simic, "My Shoes" (432) |
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September 7 |
QUIZ ON CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapters 1-5 |
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September 12 |
Hurston, Chapters 2-10 |
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September 14 |
Hurston, Chapters 11-17 |
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September 19 |
Hurston, Chapters 18-20 |
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September 21 |
PART ONE EXAMINATION |
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September 26 |
Sandra MacPherson, "Streamers" (513-516)
Frank Bidart, "Another Life" (447-450)
Audre Lorde, "Afterimages" (404-408)
Philip Levine, "The Horse" (311-312) |
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September 28 |
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, Book One, Chapters I-X |
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October 3 |
Wharton, Book Two, Chapters XI-XV |
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October 5 |
Wharton, Book Two, Chapters XVI-XX |
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October 10 |
QUIZ ON EDITH WHARTON, BOOKS ONE AND TWO
Wharton, Book Three, Chapters XXI-XXIV |
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October 12 |
Wharton, Book Three, Chapters XXV-XXX |
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October 17 |
Wharton, Book Four, Chapters XXXI-XXXVI |
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October 19 |
Wharton, Book Five, Chapters XXXVII-XLVI |
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October 24 |
PART TWO EXAMINATION |
Th |
October 26 |
FALL BREAK |
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October 31 |
Richard Wilbur, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" (128-129)
Elizabeth Bishop, "Under the Window: Ouro Prêto" (30-31)
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross, Act One |
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November 2 |
Mamet, Act Two |
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T |
November 7 |
Mamet, continued
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Ajarry, Georgia |
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November 9 |
Whitehead, Ridgeway, South Carolina |
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November 14 |
QUIZ ON MAMET, POEMS, WHITEHEAD
Whitehead, Stevens, North Carolina |
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November 16 |
Whitehead, Ethel, Tennessee, Caesar
CHARACTER ANALYSIS DUE |
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November 21 |
Whitehead, Indiana, Mabel, The North |
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November 23 |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
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November 28 |
May Swenson, "Teleology" (98-99)
Howard Moss, "The Wars" (146-147)
Sylvia Plath, "The Colossus" (368-369)
Cormac McCarthy, The Road, pages 3-72 |
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November 30 |
McCarthy, pages 73-137 |
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December 5 |
McCarthy, pages 138-221 |
Th |
December 7 |
McCarthy, pages 222-287 |
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Th |
December 14 |
FINAL EXAMINATION, 8:00am-9:55am |
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