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WRITING (L13)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2021
L13 Writing 432The Craft of Poetry: Modern and Contemporary Documentary Poetics3.0 Units
Description:The past twenty years has seen a resurgence in poetry collections that rely on text from court proceedings, news articles, books, and other sources. Robin Coste Lewis's "Voyage of the Sable Venus" includes a 79-page documentary poem, of the same title, solely comprised of language from art catalogues and museum titles, in an attempt to render a historical view of the Black female figure. In "Look," Solmaz Sharif relies on language from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms to question the cost of war and her family's position within those military interventions. Both Lewis and Sharif draw on a documentary poetry lineage largely shaped by Muriel Rukeyser. This course will center Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead" (1938) as a central text to understanding how modern and contemporary practitioners, such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Mark Nowak, and Henk Rossouw, approach documentary poetry. Some questions we will attempt to answer include: What is the connection between documentary poetry and documentary photography and film? What similarities and differences exist between documentary poetry, poetry of witness, and conceptual work? What are the ways documentary poetry forces us to re-think or expand our understanding of what poetry is? Students will consider how their current poetic interests might be deepened by the form through discussion, presentations, and a final portfolio of documentary poems. PREREQS: Undergraduate students must have taken Writing 322 Poetry 2 to enroll. This course counts toward the Creative Writing Concentration.
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: HWriting: POET
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