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English 166 - Winter, 2016
Love & Desire in Contemporary American Poetry
Class Information
Instructor:
Clover, Joshua
CRN:
43598
Time:
TR 1:40-3:00
Location:
118 Olson
Description
"Love & Desire" are often associated with romantic love and particularly with conventional pair-bonding, the intense coupling once called "autism for two." In this course, we will do our best to locate that mode within a larger context of love & desire that includes queer love, revolutionary desire, love for place, collective love, and the like. We'll read a bunch of poems from the last few decades, and end with a sustained consideration of whether the ideas of love & desire are universal or if they change over place and time — and if so, how we might think about them now in relation to poetry.
Grading
Grading will be based on an even mix of reading responses, quizzes, participation, and a final paper.
Texts
Revolutionary Letters
, Diane DiPrima
Lunch Poems
, Frank O'Hara
this connection of everyone with lungs
, Juliana Spahr
The Dream of a Common Language
, Adrienne Rich
Selected Poems
, Gwendolyn Brooks
