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Required & Recommended Books for SWP 2010 Courses
 Week One: June 14-20
Poet or Assassin?
“The assassin is the one who bombards the existing people with molecular populars that are forever closing all of the assemblages, hurling them into an even wider and deeper black hole. The poet is one who lets loose molecular populations in hopes that this will sow the seeds of, or even engender the people to come − open a cosmos” (Deleuze & Guattari). Paul Virilio also posits the question: “To live as poet or assassin?” This week, our writers will consider personal ethos, including their current projects and “roles” in the world as scholars, activists, and educators. Where do cultures within cultures reside? To whom are we beholden?
Charles Alexander The printed word strikes with FORCE!
Required:
Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand - Landscapes of Dissent: Guerilla Poetry & Public Space
Recommended:
James D. Sullivan - On the Walls and In The Streets: American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s
Junior Burke & Bobbie Louise Hawkins Delivering Performance Text
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Julie Carr Writing and Violence: Invoking, Avoiding, Inviting
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Linh Dinh Streetwise
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Thalia Field Logic Defiled: Essays in Practice
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W.G. Sebald - The Emigrants
Virginia Woolf - Three Guinneas
Christa Wolf - Accident
Ross Gay Mastery or Mystery?
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Federico Garcia Lorca - Play and Theory of the Duende
Lars von Trier: The Five Obstructions (Film)
Fanny Howe - Bewilderment (Online)
Laird Hunt Histories
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Michael Ondaatje - Coming through Slaughter
Selah Saterstrom - Pink Institution
W.G. Sebald - Rings of Saturn
Stephen Graham Jones Stories That Shouldn't Work
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Bhanu Kapil Writing Sentences That Attract:
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Jaime Manrique Dreams, "Voices," Visions, Riffs, Meditations, Rants
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Roberto Bolaño – Distant Star
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Federico Garcia Lorca – Poet in New York
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
Jennifer Moxley Radical Receptivity
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Jennifer Scappettone Languages of Dislocation: Poetry Of & Off the Page
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David Trinidad The Personal Poem
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Week Two: June 21–27
Planet News: Investigating Eco-Ethos-Eros.
 Considering both human and non-human elements, where does our writing practice intersect with others? A sense of empathy, one evidenced in the mirror neurons of chimps, attracts our attention. From flowers, spiders, to the wooly mammoth, we will consider our ongoing investigative projects in “nature” as templates for radical shifts in research and imagination. Eros suggests we fall more in love with our world and the dharma suggests we do the same. What does it mean for locals here at Naropaland, who continue to struggle with the karma of Rocky Flats plutonium waste?
Jane Augustine & Michael Heller Poetical Ecologies & Radical Observation
Recommended:
Basho - The Narrow Road to the North and Other Travel Sketches
William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Carlos Williams - Spring and All
W. G. Sebald - After Nature
A.C Graham (trans) - Poems of the late T'Ang
Caroline Bergvall Marks and tracings
Recommended:
Fiona Templeton - Cells of Release
Robert Morris - Blind Time Drawings
Henri Michaux - Broken Arm” from Darkness Moves
Bob Ostertag - Sooner or Later (Audio download)
Explore the site of writer and artist Christof Migone (online)
Explore the site of artist and videomaker Christina McPhee (online)
Explore the site of composer and performer Miya Masaoka (online)
Jack Collom Comedy & Nature
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Samuel R. Delany A Writing Workshop
Alan Gilbert The Avant-Garde Is a Corpse, and We Are Necrophiliac
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Brenda Hillman Our ecopoetics, her inner life, its vocabulary, your-my-and-their activisms
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Kenneth Rexroth - In Defense of Earth
Gary Snyder - Myths and Texts
Jack Spicer - Language and Book of Magazine Verse
Robert Duncan - Selected Poems
Denise Levertov - Footprints
Willam Everson - Dark God of Eros
Lisa Jarnot Investigative Poetry!
Required:
Ed Sanders - Investigative Poetry and THE PARTY (copies will be provided)
Tracie Morris Sound Poetry
Peruse Ubuweb and PennSound beforehand
Daniel Pinchbeck Writing and Illumination
Recommended:
Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke - The Duino Elegies
Virgina Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf - Moments of Being
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
Walter Benjamin - Illuminations
Evelyn Reilly Ecologies of the Unpoetic
Recommended:
Jackson Mac Low - Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works
Lisa Robertson - The Weather
Will Alexander - The Sri Lankan Loxodrome
Elizabeth Robinson & Helen Howe Braider Wordscapes
Required:
Thomas A. Clark - Of Woods & Water
Ian Hamilton Finlay - Selected Letters and Notes
James Stevens Shock of the (Old) New: Writing of New World Nature
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Juliana Spahr - This Connection of Everything with Lungs
Recommended:
James Stevens - Of Kingdoms and Kangaroo (to be provided)
Mary Tasillo Material as Muse
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Week Three: June 28–July 4
Great Divides and Common Ground
This week, writers from Bosnia, Turkey, Mexico, China, and indigenous America join us as we consider ways to acknowledge the richness of linguistic, historical, and ritual difference, yet enjoy common ground. What are the stories of ethnicity that we arrive with and where do they go? How do we regard the power structures that dominate our lives? What do we read and in what tongues? How do we translate and study our various maps and boundaries?
Sinan Antoon Strangers to Ourselves
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Sherwin Bitsui Shifting Modalities
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Xi Chuan Discussions on Tang Poets in English Translation
Recommended:
Eliot Weinberger, Ed. New Directions Anthology of Chinese Poetry
Dolores Dorantes & Jen Hofer Sad and Sweet (Trilce): Unmapping Structures of Power, Mapping Acts of Agency
Required:
César Vallejo - Trilce (trans. Clayton Eshleman)
Recommended:
Vicente Huidobro - Manifestos Manifest (trans. Gilbert Alter-Gilbert)
Jaime Sáenz - Immanent Visitor (trans. Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson)
Jaime Sáenz - The Night (trans. Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson)
Jack Hirschman The Communist Manifesto: The Original Arcane
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Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
Jack Hirschman - The Original Arcane
Anselm Hollo Morphing Texts: Translation, Transformation
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Bob Holman Disappearing Tongues: Orality, Technology and the Poetry of Endangered Languages
Recommended:
Walter Ong - Orality and Literacy
Daniel Everett - Don't Sleep There Are Snakes
Grahame Davis - Everything Must Change
Thomas Hale - Griots and Griottes
Mark Albey - Spoken Here:Travels Among Threatened Languages
K. David Harrison - When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
Jerome Rothenberg - Technicians of the Sacred
Semezdin Mehmedinovic The Influence of Poetry on Film
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Murat Nemet-Nejat A Rhetoric of Rebellion
Recommended:
Murat Nemet-Nejat (Ed) - Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry
Murat Nemet-Nejat - The Peripheral Space of Photography
Please watch Blade Runner before coming to class
Akilah Oliver Playing the In-Between
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Claudia Rankine - Don't Let Me Lonely
Akilah Oliver - A Toast in the House of Friends
Margaret Randall Writing From Our Other Selves
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson & Susan McCarthy - When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Life of Animals
Damion Searls The Whole Fling of a Sentence
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Rainer Maria Rilke - The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams (trans. by Damion Searls)
Julia Seko Letterpress Printing: On the Page
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Week Four: July 6–12
Public Space: Performance & Small Press Publishing
Performance (from the French parfornir) is to enact a ritual in front of an audience. “Can you hear me in the back?” Vladimir Mayakovsky inquires in a famous poem. We will work on writing with an ear to project our voices, bodies, and imaginations to the back of the room. Dancers, singers, actors and word workers of many ilks join the mix this week. Collaboration is an effort that turns in many directions in that it takes two or more people to operate a printshop or found a small press in order to send books out into the ozone. How do we keep the spirit going for many decades, as has, for instance, Coffee House Press, whose founder and publisher, Allan Kornblum, joins us this week?
Penny Arcade In search of the Highest Form
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Penny Arcade - Bad Reputation: Performances Essays Interviews
Professor Stephen Bottoms - Playing Underground
Michel Foucault - Fearless Speech
Laynie Browne InFORMal Excursions
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Bernadette Mayer - The Desires of Mothers To Please Others in Letters
Alice Notley - Grave of Light
Jeff Hilson - The Reality Street Book of Sonnets
Lydia Davis - Varieties of Disturbance
Wendy Walker - Stories out of Omarie
Barbara Guest - Stripped Tales
Madame de Sevigne - Selected Letters
Douglas Dunn Visual/Kinetic Language
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Danielle Dutton Performing the Everyday
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Georges Perec - Species of Spaces
Julio Cortázar & Carol Dunlap - Autonautes of the Cosmoroute
Brian Evenson & Joanna Howard Stealing from the Dead: Fiction and Innovation
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Damion Searls -
What We Are Doing and Where We Were Going
Colin Frazer Advertising Abstraction
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Robert Bringhurst - Elements of Typographic Style
Allan Kornblum Publishing and Authorship, Past and Present
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David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery - An Introduction to Book History
Hugh Ford - Published in Paris
Note: Out of print, but used copies available online at a reasonable price
Rachel Levitsky States of Confinement
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Jena Osman (Ed) - Refuge/Refugee
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Tina Darragh & Marcella Durand. - Deep Eco Pre (ebook)
Julie Patton Locus Pocus
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Opal Whiteley - The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
Joseph Rael - Being & Vibration
Selah Saterstrom Collaborating with Mystery: Syntax as Performance
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Leonard Koren - Wabi Sabi
Patricia Smith Unveiling Yesterdays
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Steven Taylor Song Works
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Anne Waldman Performance Evolution
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Anne Waldman - Manatee/Humanity
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