LALL 610 Intro to Contemporary Poetry I

Division of Liberal Arts

3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course

In the first half of this year-long course, students are introduced to the fundamentals of contemporary poetry through close critical reading. The course focuses on recent poetry collections representative of the last ten to fifteen years in Anglo-American poetry. It concentrates on the work of poets in mid-career and introduces two major aesthetic categories in poetry, the lyric and the narrative. We will explore how these two categories entail different approaches to technical issues such as the line, tone, diction, pacing and rhythm, as well as image and metaphor.

Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.