Poetry for Pleasure in the Winter, with Barry Wallenstein

Poetry for Pleasure in the Winter, with Barry Wallenstein
February 27, 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.

Here is the poetry book for the winter semester: CLICK HERE

We'll discuss the poems on these pages:

• All Green Went My Love Riding by ee cummings – pp. 46-47
• The Soul has Bandaged moments by Emily Dickinson – p. 25
• To Make Prairie by Emily Dickinson – p. 25
• Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden – p. 17
• Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams – p. 17
• Behind Stowe by Elizabeth Bishop – p. 33
• The Peace of Wild Things by Wendall Berry – p. 90
• Cool Tombs by Carl Sandberg – p. 22
• Ballad of Great Weariness by Dorothy Parker – p. 51