Poetry for Pleasure in the Spring, with Barry Wallenstein
Poetry for Pleasure in the Spring, with Barry Wallenstein
April 16, 2024 @ 1:00-2:15pm
These lectures with discussion will involve close readings of poems – classic, modern, and contemporary. Our aim is to listen to the sound poems make. What makes a successful language performance? We will discuss these works’ emotional truth, unity of expression, and attention-holding, pleasure-providing use of language. Barry’s guest poet this week is Grace Schulman.
These lectures with discussion will involve close readings of poems – classic, modern, and contemporary. Our aim is to listen to the sound poems make. What makes a successful language performance? We will discuss these works’ emotional truth, unity of expression, and attention-holding, pleasure-providing use of language. Philip Fried is Barry’s guest poet this week.
In our class on April 16, we’ll discuss the following poems:
- If We Must Die by Claude McKay – p. 30
- Lament of the Frontier Guard by Ezra Pound – p.22
- The Waking by Theodore Roethke – p. 41
- How I Learned to Dance & Oedipus, Tourist by Philip Fried – p. 77-79
- from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters – p. 46
- Water by Rita Satz – p. 91
- Lady Came from Baltimore by Tim Hardin – p. 85 (with the recorded song)
Here is the poetry book for the semester: CLICK HERE