| Week 1 |
Required Texts |
Recommended Texts |
| Amy King & Ana Bozicevic - The Trans Cyborg |
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| Bhanu Kapil - Autobiography of a Cyborg [fur remix] [out of print] |
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| Erica Kaufman - Prosthesis & Procedure |
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Cyborg Citizen by Chris Hables Gray
The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra
How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles
Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, and Music by John |
| giovanni singleton - bluesography 5.0 |
nocturnes (re)view -- issue 3: the "blues" w/ CD (required) |
blues people by amiri baraka
Blues and the Poetic Spirit by Paul Garon
Book of Blues by Jack Kerouac
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac |
| Julia Seko - One Craft, Many Hands, Big Machines: Letterpress Printing |
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| Maureen Owen - Lyrical Acrobatics |
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Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, University of California Press, 2001 |
| Max Regan - Stealing The Dictionary |
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| Melissa Buzzeo - For Debris |
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| Rebecca Brown - Transforming Characters and Hybrid Forms |
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| Rob Halpern - Pornotopias |
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| Samuel Delany - Writing Through Gender |
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Tisa Bryant - scrim: material and multiple
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| Vanessa Place - I will not represent you: Gender Dismembered |
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Place & Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms |
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| Week 2 |
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| Anselm Hollo - How to Say What You Did Not Mean to Say |
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| C.S. Giscombe - Poetics of Location, Writing Across the Genres |
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| Colin Frazer - Printshop |
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| David Matlin - Hybrids, Prose, and "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell" |
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Michael Herr: Dispatches (Vintage Books)
Marianne Wiggins: The Shadow Catcher (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks) |
| Evie Shockley - Witness, Authority, Fiction, and Truth |
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| Junior Burke - Sitting Quietly, Doing Everything |
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| Kabir Mohanty - Arcs, spaces, wholes |
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W.G.Sebald "The rings of saturn"
Claudio Magris "Microcosms"
Ritwik Ghatak "Jukti, Takko aar Gappo"(film) |
| Karen Weiser - Writing Through Texts from Other Centuries |
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"A Key Into the Language of America" by Rosmarie Waldrop and "A Key Into the Language of America" by Roger Williams; Fred Moten's "Hughson's Tavern" and the introduction to Jill Lepore's "New York Burning"; Susan Howe's "Thorow" (in "Singularities") and |
| Karen Tei Yamashita - Doing Oulipo for Social Change |
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| Laird Hunt - Contemporary European Fiction |
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| Renee Gladman - Story Space: Maps, Models, Versions |
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| Ronaldo V. Wilson - Narratives as Archives and Ephemera |
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Cornelius Eady’s Brutal Imagination, C.A. Conrad’s Advanced Elvis Course, Harryette Mullen’s Sleeping With the Dictionary, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s I Love Artists, Wayne Koestenbaum’s Rhapsodies of A Repeat Offender, Meena Alexander’s Poetics of Dislocati |
| Sharmistha Mohanty - Arcs, spaces, wholes |
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W.G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn
Claudio Magris: Microcosms
Ritwik Ghatak "Jukti, Takko aar Gappo"(film) |
| Stephen Graham Jones - My Life Story is Two Pages Long |
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| Week 3 |
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| Barbara Henning - Expanding the Narrative I/eye(s) |
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)((eco(lang)(uage(reader)), Brenda Iijima ed |
| Eleni Sikelianos - At Play in the Ecozones |
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| Eleni Stecopoulos - Dreaming in the Fault Zone: Poetry, Healing, Earth |
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Raul Zurita, INRI (Trans. William Rowe)
Robert Kocik, Rhrurbarb
Hannah Weiner, The Fast
Antonin Artaud, "An Emotional Athleticism" (Trans. Helen Weaver) in Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings. (Ed. Susan Sontag)
Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (Tr |
| Jack Collom - Comedy & Nature |
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| Jed Rasula - Ecology of Language |
Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Resistance to Civil Government 2nd edition., edited by William Rossi (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1992) |
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Jennifer Foerster - Poetics of Engagement
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| Jonathan Skinner - Disrupted Environments / Poetic Changes |
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"Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape," Jonathan Skinner, in The Ecolanguage Reader, ed. Brenda Iijima
The Natural History, Christopher Dewdney
The End of the Wild, Stephen M. Meyer (available online)
"Rubus Armeniacus: A Common Archit |
| Lara Durback - Printing: Repurposing and Giving |
bring in some examples of small press work (chapbooks, zines) that affect you, & Laura Elrick article in the Ecolanguage Reader |
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (either purchase or view excerpts online) http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/issues.htm
specifically, this article by Gregory Sholette: http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/new3/sholette.html
http://book |
| Laura Mullen - Margin Release: The Reinvention of Love (open genre) |
Jane Tompkins, “Me and My Shadow” (essay)
(available on-line at http://www.jstor.org/pss/469310 w/ JSTOR access) |
Trash (MIT Press) ISBN-10: 0262113015
ISBN-13: 978-0262113014
Martha Rosler: 3 Works
ISBN-10: 0919616461
ISBN-13: 978-0919616462
Brenda Coultas: A Handmade Museum (CoffeeHouse |
| Marcella Durand - The poetical ecological journal |
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Online source: Recycles: the Eco-Ethical Poetics of Found Text in Contemporary Poetry, by Harriet Tarlo http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/viewFile/120/226
For the Time Being:The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals, eds. Tyler Doherty and Tom Morgan, |
Selah Saterstrom - Dreaming Language
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| Tyrone Williams - HOCUS-LOCUS: Occultation, Place, Placelessness |
) (Eco (Lang) uage (Reader)), edited by Brenda Iijima; The Shunt, David Buuck. |
The Age of Virtual Reproduction, Spring Ulmer
The Church -- The School -- The Beer, cris cheek
Jennifer Scappetone's FROM DAME, QUICKLY
Marcella Durand's AREA |
| Week 4 |
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| Anne Waldman - Going Vocal |
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Anne Waldman, Manatee/Humanity
http://www.wix.com/fastspeakingmusic/fsm |
| Bobbie Louise Hawkins - Monologue |
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| DJ Spooky - Sample This! |
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| Edwin Torres - Body-Roar/Brain-Lingo: Writing the voice of the body |
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| Eileen Myles - The Performance of Fiction |
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Anything by Robert Walser, Halldor Laxness, especially Under Glacier. Violette Leduc's La Batarde. |
| Hal Willner - Music Production in the Arts; Past, Present & Future |
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| Harryette Mullen - Poetry Workshop |
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Toi Derricotte, “Cave Canem: An Introduction,” Callaloo, vol. 22, no.
4, Fall 1999: 974.
Cornelius Eady et al, “Introduction,” Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2006.
Daniel Kane, |
| Jane Sprague - Whose Writing Who?: Poet-Editor-Publisher Agents of Activist Production |
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| Lewis Warsh - No Secrets |
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| Margaret Randall - Memoir, The Dangerous Genre: "truth" in the information age |
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I, Rigoberta Menchu, by Rigoberta Menchu and Elizabeth Burgos
Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, by David Stoll |
| Steven Taylor - Song Works |
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| Thurston Moore - IN SILVER RAIN WITH A PAPER KEY |
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| Wesley Tanner - Taking the long view: survival practice in small press publishing |
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