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Required & Recommended Books for SWP 2009 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 15-21
Jack Kerouac School Lineages
Rebecca Brown Kerouac's Haibun Lineage
Suggested Reading
Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels (Riverhead)
Matsuo Basho, Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambhala)
Junior Burke & Bobbie Louise Hawkins Creating Performance Text
No required or suggested reading
Jack Collom Comedy & Nature
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Samuel R. Delany Some of the Ways They Wrote....
TBA
Renee Gladman The Novel in Brief
Required Text
Diane William, It was Like my Trying to Have a Tender-hearted Nature (FC2)
Suggested Reading
Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar (Houghton Mifflin)
Brad Gooch The New York School
Suggested Reading
Frank O’Hara, Selected Poems (Knopf)
Brad Gooch, City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara (Harper)
James Schuyler, Selected Poems (FSG)
Kenneth Koch, Selected Poems (Libary of America)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Anselm Hollo How to Say What You did not Mean to Say
No required or suggested reading
Laird Hunt Beats and Other Exceptional Outriders: a Fiction Workshop
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Joyce Johnson The Observant I
Suggested Reading
Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody (Penguin)
Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard (Penguin)
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being (Harvest)
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory (Vintage)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Eileen Myles Gender Hike
Suggested Reading
Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums (Penguin)
Donna Harraway, How Like a Leaf (Routledge)
Judy Grahn, Edward the Dyke (Women’s Press Collective)
Rene Gladman, The Activist (Krupskaya)
Barbara Guest, Selected Poems (Sun & Moon)
Judith Butler, Undoing Gender (Routledge)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Janine Pommy Vega Poems of Resilience: Lucille Clifton in Our Time
Required Text
Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats (Boa Editions)
Julia Seko Voices Take Form: Letterpress Printing
No required or suggested reading
A.B. Spellman Building the Poem
No required or suggested reading
Week 2: June 22-28
Contemplative Poethics: Endangered Species and Imagination
Reed Bye Polyvocal Verse (Who said that?)
No required or suggested reading
Amy Catanzano Quantum Poetics and New Narratives: Writing the Speed of Light
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Maxine Chernoff Loss and Recovery—Language, History, Landscape
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Laura Elrick The Speculative Act and Poetic Practice
No required or suggested reading
Kass Fleisher The Poethical Essay: "Truth" and Reconciliation
No required or suggested reading
Akilah Oliver To Enter the Day
Suggested Reading
Fanny Howe, The Wedding Dress (University of California Press)
Fanny Howe, Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown (Nightboat Books)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Elizabeth Robinson Studies in Silence
Required Reading:
Lissa Wolsak, Pen Chants (Roof Books)
Suggested Reading:
Paul Celan, Breathturn (Green Integer)
bp nichol, The Martyrology (Coach House)
Sappho (trans Anne Carson), If not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Vintage)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Jerome Rothenberg Anthologies & Assemblages
Suggested Reading
Jerome Rothenberg, Technicians of the Sacred (Univ of CA Press)
Jerome Rothenberg, Poems for the Millenium (Univ of CA Press)
Selah Saterstrom Dreaming Language: From the Margins & Across the Borders
No required or suggested reading
Eleni Sikelianos Call & Response: Conversations with land and life shapes
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Wesley Tanner Structures of the Book Manifested
No required or suggested reading
Cecilia Vicuña ConTemplation
No required or suggested reading
Anne Waldman Endangered/Engendered: What’s hidden? What’s revealed?
Required Text
Anne Waldman, Manatee/Humanity (Penguin)
Week 3: June 29–July 5
Polyvalent/Rhizomic Identities
Sherwin Bitsui Shifting Modalities
No required or suggested reading
Bei Dao 20th Century International Poetry
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Shari DeGraw A Single Sheet - The Broadside
No required or suggested reading
Clayton Eshleman Rhizomic Poetics
Suggested Reading
Clayton Eshleman, The Grindstone of Rapport (Black Widow Press,)
Cesar Vallejo, The Complete Poetry (U of Cal Press)
Aime Cesaire, The Collected Poetry (U of Cal Press)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Gloria Frym Exploring Eden
No required or suggested reading
Mark McMorris Title TBA
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Semezdin Mehmedinovic Identity in the Languages of Politics and Literature
Suggested Reading
Ariel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (Penguin)
Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity (Penguin)
Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Other (Verso)
Leonard Schwartz Responsibility as The Ability To Respond: Poem As Dialogue
Required Text
Robert Duncan, Groundwork II (New Directions)
Suggested Reading
Leonard Schwartz, Language as Responsibility (Tinfiish)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Christopher Stackhouse Memetics and Concept. Distribution: The Poet as The
Artist's Artist
Required Text
John Keene & Christopher Stackhouse, Seismosis (1913 Press)
Suggested Reading
Barbara Jordan, Trace Elements (Penguin)
Paul Shepard, The Only World We’ve Got (Sierra Club Books)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Truong Tran Beyond The Surface
No required or suggested reading
Lewis Warsh Writing through the Eyes of Another
Suggested Reading:
Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth (New Directions)
Marguerite Duras. The Lover (Pantheon)
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (FSG)
Zhang Er Where Canon is Fluid: Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Required Text
Zhang Er and Chen Dongdong, Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Talisman House)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Week 4: July 6–12
Performance, Community: Policies of the USA in the Larger World
Michelle Ellsworth Solo Performance
No required or suggested reading
Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard Fantastic Fiction: Writing Against Realism
No required or suggested reading
Simone Forti Writing from Movement
Suggested Reading
Simone Forti, Handbook in Motion (Contact Quarterly)
Simone Forti, Oh, Tongue (Beyond Baroque)
Simone Forti, Unbuttoned Sleeves (Beyond Baroque)
David Gere & Anne Casper Albright. Eds. Taken By Surprise (Wesleyan)
C.S. Giscombe Public Intersections
Suggested Reading
Amiri Baraka, “Hunting is Not Those Heads on the Wall,” in Home, Social Essays
CS Giscombe, Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Dan Machlin Poem as Project: Project as Poem
Required Text
Brenda Coultas, A Handmade Museum (Coffee House)
Suggested Reading
Ted Berrigan, The Sonnets (Penguin)
Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker (Hard Press)
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Ed Roberson Made Connections
No required or suggested reading
Alberto Ruy-Sanchez To Become a Stranger
Suggested Reading
Amin Malouf, In the Name of Identity (Penguin)
Alan Lightman, Eninstein’s Dreams (Vintage)
Marcel Mauss, The Gift (Norton)
Dale Smith Publishing the Public Word: Networked Tribes, and Resilient Communities
Suggested Reading
John Robb, Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (Wiley)
Suggested Online Reading
John Robb, Global Guerrillas: Networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar
of violence.
John Robb, Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures
Linh Dinh, Detainees
James Howard Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation
Matt Savinar, Life After the Oil Crash
An additional course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Mary Tasillo Visual Texts: Collaborative Books
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Steven Taylor Remember the future: Song and the War on Memory
A course reading packet will be provided by the Instructor
Wang Ping Where the Waters Gather and the Rivers Meet: Writing with Fragments and Collages
Suggested Reading
Robert Shapard, Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (Norton)
David Lehman. Ed, Great American Prose Poems: Poe to Present. (Scribner)
Alice Oswald, Spacecraft Voyager: New & Selected Poetry. (Graywolf Press)
Alice Oswald, Dart. (Faber & Faber)
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