LALL 971 Contemporary Poetry: The Book

Division of Liberal Arts

3 credits 45.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course

This course will explore notable tendencies in current poetry by focusing on book-length poetic projects, sequences, and series published in the last five years. We will consider the qualities of craft and sensibility that distinguish some of the most exciting new poetry, as well as how those elements interact with a book’s arrangement, design, and cultural positioning. Considered texts will include works in translation and those that engage with documentary poetics, ecopoetics, conceptualism, and digital/multimedia approaches. Students will write two major essays in response to course material and will complete a final project that combines creative and critical modes; this final project may include collaborative or interdisciplinary methods. The course will feature visits from some of the studied authors.

Prerequisites LACR*102 or LACR*103

This course is not repeatable for credit.