SPAN 3800

Poetry and Poetics of the Americas

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

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 Americas? How might we characterize its dominant forms and alternative practices? What shared influences, affiliations, concerns and approaches might we find and what convergences and differences emerge? Ranging across North and South America, Central America and the Caribbean, this course will place in conversation such figures as Poe, Pound, Stein, Williams, Neruda, Vallejo, Borges, Parra, Bolaño, Césaire, Nourbese Philip, Hong, Long Soldier, Rankine, Lamar, Kaminsky, and Xie.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Recommended prerequisite: ability to read Spanish.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)
Course Attribute (EC-LASP)

Comments Texts not written in English will be available in both translation and the original.

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