COML 3800

Poetry and Poetics of the Americas

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2019-2020 Catalog.

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? How might we characterize its dominant forms and alternative practices? What shared influences, affiliations, concerns and approaches might we find and what differences emerge? Ranging across North and South America, Central America and the Caribbean, this course will place in conversation such figures as Poe, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Williams, Neruda, Vallejo, Borges, Parra, Césaire, Walcott, Bolaño, Espada, Waldrop, Vicuña, Hong, and Rankine.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Comments Ability to read Spanish desirable but not required; texts not written in English will be available in both translation and the original.

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