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Brian Reed
ENGL 343
Seattle Campus
Recent developments by such poets as Hughes, Heaney, Rich, Kinnell, and Hugo.
Class description
Contemporary American Poetry. This course will offer an introduction to contemporary American poetry. It will begin by looking at figures whose experiments 1975-2000 are a prelude to subsequent developments: John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, and a couple Language Poets (Rae Armantrout, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, and Michael Palmer). Afterwards, we will read a selection of some of the most prominent poets of the twenty-first century, among them Mary Jo Bang, Peter Gizzi, Brenda Hillman, Nathaniel Mackey, Harryette Mullen, D.A. Powell, Donald Revell, Reginald Shepherd, Juliana Spahr, Elizabeth Willis, C.D. Wright, and John Yau. In addition, we will look at samples of avant-garde writing and work by a few emergent figures.
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