Ira Sadoff

Department of English
office 224 Miller Library, x-3297



Contemporary American Poetry

Syllabus



Class meetings: Tues. & Thurs. 11:00-12:15
office hours: Tues. & Thurs. 12:30-2:30

2 six-eight page papers; weekly forum entries;Take-home Final

click on the title to download a Word document:

Ashbery_poems
Bishop_Sestina
Bly_executives_death
Espada_Poems
Formal_poems-Merrill,Taylor
Fraser language poetry
Gluck_short_paper_mod
Gluck_poems
Knott_Survival
Komunyakka_poems
Laux_Poems
Levertov_Notes_on_Organic_Form.
Levine_Belle_Isle_1949
Lewis_True_Confessions
Lowell Biography

Merwin_Poems
Neoformalism: dangerous nostalgia
Nicholson_POSTMODERNISM
Notley_Experience
O'Hara_On_Personism
Orr_The_Doll
Peacock_Mental_France
Plath_poems
postmodern_poems
Rich_poems
Simic_poems
Simic_The_Image
Stern_poems
Williams_C.K._poems
Yezzi confessional poetry


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