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Required & Recommended Books for SWP 2008 Courses
Most faculty members will also supply a course packet of Reading materials. The following is a list of additional required and suggested books for each course. Be sure to check back for updates.
Week 1: June 16-22
The Wall: Troubling of Race, Class, Economics, Gender, and Imagination
Samuel R. Delany Cultural Encounters
Recommended Reading:
Delany, Samuel R. About Writing. Wesleyan Univ Press.
Marcella Durand Other Sources: Poetry and Science
Recommended Reading:
Wang, Shanxing. Mad Science in the Imperial City. Futurepoem.
Alexander, Will. Towards the Primeval Lightning Field. Institute of Physics Publishing.
Sikelianos, Eleni. The California Poem. Coffee House Press.
Laird Hunt Erasures: A Workshop in Disobedient Prose
None
Brenda Iijima How does it feel to be a verb? Where’s action?
Recommended Reading:
Morisson, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Harvard Univ Press or Vintage.
Braithwaite, Kamau. Born to Slow Horses. Wesleyan University Press.
Lee, Sueyeun Juliette. Mental Commitment Robots. Portable Press at Yo YoLabs
Kapil, Bhanu. Incubation: A Space for Monsters. Leon Works.
Williams, Tyrone. On Spec. Omnidawn.
Hye-sun, Kim. When_the_Plug_Gets-Unplugged. Tinfish Press.
Bhanu Kapil "Untitled": Ana Mendieta and the Art of the Imprint
None
Miranda Mellis Magic & Politics
Required Reading:
Cesaire, Aime. A Tempest. TCG Translations,
K. Silem Mohammad The Poetic Hypogram
Recommended Reading:
Betts, Gregory. If Language. BookThug.
Zukofsky, Louise. A. John Hopkins Univ Press
Boyer, Anne. The Romance of Happy Workers. Coffee House Press.
Bök, Christian. Eunoia. Coach House Books
Doris, Stacey. Paramour. Krupskaya
Akilah Oliver Memoir and Anti/Memoir: The Self as A Narrative of Resistance
None
Maureen Owen Poet as Caveat
Required Reading:
Gibson, Scott. Ed. Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard. Painted Leaf Press.
Sakaki, Nanao. Break the Mirror. North Point Press.
Margaret Randall Memory and Voice: Writing against the Clock
Recommended Reading:
Harjo, Joy. How we become Human. Norton.
Galeano, Eduardo. The Book of Embraces. Norton.
Krog, Antjie. Country of my Skull. Three Rivers.
Max Regan Paper the House
None
Joe Richey Muckraker Poetics
Recommended Reading:
Richey, Joe. Ed. Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes. Univ of Michigan Press.
Sanders, Ed. 1968: A History in Verse. Black Sparrow.
Dorn, Ed. Way More West. Penguin.
Ginsberg, Allen. Spontaneous Mind: Selected Inverviews 1958-1996. Harper Collins.
Julia Seko Words by Hand, Words in Hand: Letterpress Printing
None
Roberto Tejada The Dialogic Lyric
Recommended Reading:
Callois, Roger. Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia.http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpcaillois.htm
Warburg, Aby. "Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America." The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Donald Preziosi. Cornell Univ Press.
Yakubinsky, Lev Petrovich. “On Dialogic Speech.” Trans. Michael Eskin. PMLA 112 (2):243-256.
Week 2: June 23-29
Elective Affinities: Against the Grain:
Writerly Utopias
Charles Alexander Elective Affinities and the Pleasures of Poetry and Books
Required Reading:
Goethe, Wolfgang Von. Elective Affinities. Penguin.
Mullen, Haryette. Muse & Drudge. Singing Horse Press.
Recommended Reading:
Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. MIT Press.
Miller, David. In the Shop of Nothing. Harbor Mountain Press.
Will Alexander Language as Intuitive Ozone
Recommended Reading:
Mackey, Nathaniel. Splay Anthem. New Directions.
Cesaire, Aime. Collected Works. Univ of CA Press.
Neruda, Pablo. Selected Works. Grove or Houghton-Mifflin.
Kaufman, Bob. Solitudes crowded with loneliness. New Directions.
Lamantia, Philip. Bed of Sphinxes. City Lights Books.
Sinan Antoon Strangers to Ourselves
Recommended Reading:
Antoon, Sinana. I’jam: An Iraqi Rhapsody. City Lights Books.
Jack Collom Comedy & Nature
None
Linh Dinh State of the Union
None
Anselm Hollo Poet as Citizen, Citizen as Poet
None
Daniel Kane Fragments, Blotches & Healing Lights: The Conversation Between ‘New American’ Film and Poetry
Recommended Reading:
Allen, Donald. Ed. The New American Poetry: 1945-1960. University of CA Press.
Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film (3rd Ed). Oxford University Press.
James, David E. Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties. Princeton Univ Press.
Douglas A. Martin Form, Formalities, Fashion, and the “Fixed-Fit”
Recommended Reading:
Acker, Kathy. Rip-off Girl, Girl Detective, and The Burning Bombing of America. Grove Press.
Acker, Kathy. Essential Acker. Grove Press.
Bachman, Ingeborg. Darkness Spoken: Collected Poems. Zephyr Press.
Niedecker, Lorine. Collected Works. Ed Jenny Penberthy. Univ of CA Press.
Myles, Eileen. Sorry, Tree. Wave Books.
Harryette Mullen Poetry Workshop
Tharp, Twyla. The Creative Habbit. Simon & Schuster Sullivan
James D. On the Walls and In the Streets: American Poetry. Univ of Illinois Press
Laura Mullen Elective the Grain Writerly
Required Reading:
Philips, Tom. A Humument. Thames & Hudson.
Recommended Reading:
McCaffery, Steve & Jed Rasula. Ed. Imagining Language: An Anthology. MIT Press.
Bervin, Jen. Nets. Ugly Duckling Presse.
Alice Notley Inventing the Story
Required Reading:
Notley, Alice. In the Pines. Penguin.
Elizabeth Robinson Mystic Speech
Required Reading:
Weil, Simone. Waiting for God. Harper Perennial.
Recommended Reading:
Samperi, Frank. Spiritual Necessity. Barrytown Ltd.
Robinson, Elizabeth. House Made of Silver. Kelsey St. Press.
Howe, Fanny. The Wedding Dress. Univ of CA. Press.
Eleni Sikelianos Non-elective Affinities (Family Histories)
None
Orlando White LETT(ERRS
Required Reading:
Nichol, B.P. The Alphabet Game. Coach House Press.
Recommended Reading:
Stefans, Brian Kim. The Dream life of Letters(http://www.ubu.com/contemp/stefans/dream/)
Stefans, Brian Kim. Fashionable Noise: Digital Poetics. Atelos Press.
Ashkenas, Jeremy. Hypertextopia (http://www.hypertextopia.com/)
Week 3: June 30–July 6
Activism, Environmentalism: The Big Picture
Amiri Baraka The Gestalt of Environment
None
Lee Ann Brown Praise Songs & Invective Verses
Recommended Reading:
Dorsky, Nathaniel. Devotional Cinema. Tuumba.
Padgett, Rod. Ed. Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. Teachers &Writer’s Collaborative.
Shaw, Lytle. Ed. 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Anthology. Roof Bookssegue.
Ueda, Makoto. Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women. Columbia Univ. Press.
Young, Kevin. Ed. Blue Poems. Everyman's Library
Junior Burke and Bobbie Louise Hawkins Beginnings/Middles/Ends
None
Thulani Davis Taking a Solo: Prose & Interdependent Consciousness
None
George Evans War and Its Politics
None
Lewis MacAdams Social Sculpture 101
Recommended Reading:
MacAdams, Lewis. D-Town Visions: Building a City the River can be proud of. National Resourses Defense Council.
Tracie Morris Performance Poetry & the Page
None
Eileen Myles Natural Technology
None
Kristin Prevallet Investigative Poetics: Public Mourning, Private Grief
Required Reading:
Prevallet, Kristin. Shadow Evidence Intelligence. Factory School.
Karen Randall Letterpress: A Love Supreme
Recommended Reading:
Printing and the mind of man: Catalogue of the exhibitions at the British museum and at the Earls Court, London 16-27, 1963. F.W. Bridge and sons LTD, & the Association of British Manufacturers of Printer’s machinery.
Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type: New & Revised Edition. Laurence King Publishing.
Meggs, Philip & Alson Purvis. Megg’s History of Graphic Design. Wiley.
Andel, Jaroslav. Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950. Delano Greenidge Editions.
Selah Saterstrom Dreaming Language: From the Margins & Across the Borders
None
Stacy Szymaszek A Language that is Ever Green
Recommended Reading:
Niedecker, Lorine. Collected Works. Ed. Jenny Penberthy. Univ of CA.
Olsen, Charles. Collected Prose of Charles Olsen. Ed. Donald Allen & Benjamin Friedlander. Univ of CA Press.
Rexroth, Kenneth. World Outside the Window: Collected Essays. New Directions.
Johnson, Ronald. The Shrubberies. Flood Editions
Knowles, Alison. Spoken Texts. Left Hand Books.
Williams, William Carlos. Spring and All. New Directions.
Dewey, John. Art as Experience. Perigee.
Anne Waldman Dream At the End of Time
Required Reading:
Waldman, Anne. Vow to Poetry. Coffee House Press.
Recommended Reading:
Pound, Ezra. & Ernest Fenollosa. The Noh Theatre of Japan. Dover Publications.
Waldman, Anne. Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble. Penguin.
Daisy Zamora Carriers of the Word
None
Week 4: July 7–13
Performance, Community:
Policies of the USA in the Larger World
Dodie Bellamy Translating the Body
None
Rikki Ducornet Fiction as subversion and deep dreaming
Recommended Reading:
Ducornet, Rikki. The Deep Zoo. Leaping Dog Press.
"Fantastic Women." Tin House Anthology vol 9 #1, 2007. Tin House Magazine.
Brian Evenson The Twists and Turns of Narrative
None
Raymond Federman Creative Writing: Experimental Fiction
Recommended Reading:
Federman, Raymond. Double or Nothing. Fiction Collective 2.
Federman, Raymond. Take it or Leave it. Northwestern Univ Press.
Forrest Gander Translucination
Recommended Reading:
Weinberger, Eliot. 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is translated. Moyer Bell.
Foss, Phillip. Imperfect Poverty. Singing Horse Press.
Gladman, Renee. Newcomer Can’t Swim. Kelsey St. Press.
Saenz, Jaime. The Night. Trans. Forrest Gander. Princeton Univ Press.
Bob Holman Poetry Power Peace: Propaganda Performance Pizzazz
Recommended Reading:
Olsen, Charles. "Projective Verse." Collected Prose. University of CA Press.
O'Hara, Frank. "Personism: A Manifesto." Collected Poems. University of CA Press.
(Both of the above can also be found in:
Hoover, Paul. Ed. Postmodern American Poetry. Norton.)
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. & Michael Almereyda. Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky. FSG.
Mullen, Harryette. "Muse & Drudge." Recyclopedia. Graywolf Press.
Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. Routledge.
Stanford, Frank. The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Lost Roads.
Torres, Edwin. The PoPedology of an Ambient Language. Atelos.
Pessoa, Fernando. A Little Larger than the Entire Universe. Trans. Richard Zenith. Penguin.
Notley, Alice. The Descent of Alette. Penguin
Fox, Margalit. Talking Hands. Simon & Schuster.
Waldman, Anne. & Lisa Birman. Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action. Coffee House Press.
Recommended Viewing:
Holman, Bob. United States of Poetry. PBS.
Recommended Listening:
Harjo, Joy. Native Joy for Real (CD). Mekko Productions.
Holman, Bob. The Awesome Whatever (CD). Bowery.
Pierre Joris Poetry as Nomadic Translation
Required Reading:
Joris, Pierre. A Nomad poetics. Wesleyan Univ Press.
Recommended Reading:
Joris, Pierre & Jerome Rothenburg. Poems for the Millenuim Vol 2. Univ of CA Press.
Joris, Pierre. Trans. 4X1: Works by Rilke, Tzara, Duprey, Tengour. Inconundrum Press.
Ilya Kaminsky Writing With Contemporary Poetry from Around The World
None
Kevin Killian Poets Theater
None
Anna Moschovakis Necessary Failure(s): Translating the untranslatable, saying the unsayable
Recommended Reading:
Blatny, Ivan. The Drug of Art: Selected Poems. Ugly Duckling Presse.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On Certainty. Blackwell.
Sawako Nakayasu Poemers & Writers
Recommended Readings:
Cortazar, Julio & Dunlop, Carol. Autonauts of the Cosmoroute. Archipelago Books.
Templeton, Fiona. YOU the City. Roof Books.
Maso, Carole: Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire. Counterpoint.
Yip, Wai-Lim. Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres. Duke University Press.
Byrne, Mairéad.SOS Poetry http://www.ubu.com/ubu/byrne_sos.html
Saroyan, Aram. Minimal Poetry: http://www.aramsaroyan.com/html/works.html
Anne Tardos Light on Who Is Listening
Recommended Reading:
Mac Low, Jackson. Thing of Beauty: New & Selected Works. Ed. Anne Tardos. University of CA Press.
Tardos, Anne. The Dik-dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works. Granary.
Tardos, Anne. I am You. Salt Publishing.
Steven Taylor Remember the Future: Song and the War on Memory
None
Peter and Donna Thomas The Word made Flesh (well Paper)!
None
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