By now you've received your invitation to the blog and you've accepted it and are ready to set forth. When you examine the poems, the idea of I like or I don't like have little bearing on our discussion. What you find as a sophisticated reader of poetry or developing as a sophisticated reader prompts you to make points about the poems on every level--what they do, how they do it, hre they come from, how you entered it, what voice carried it, the emotion that runs it, stuff like that...don't go for meaning, or the right answer, go deep into your heart and mind. Good travels
Elmaz
Welcome to the Poets of Color of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries A small sampling of poetry by poets of color are examined in this class as a way of expanding our perception of the American poetry cannon. Our discussions investigate the new forms, open languages, and cultural origins of the works, and also how these poets intersect with the literary terrain.
Poets of Color
Elmaz Abinader, Instructor Office: 313 Mills Hall
510 430 2225 elmaz@earthlink.net
office hours: 5-6:30 Thursday and by appointment
Here are the texts for the class.
• Asian American Poetry: the Next Generation edited by Victoria Chang
• Voices from Leimert Park, ed by Shonda, Buchannan
• Effigies, An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing Pacific Rim, 2009, Okpik, Rexford McDougall, etc (Salt Publishing)
• The Wind Shifts, New Latino Poetry, Edited by Francisco Aragón
• The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight
• Mercy by Lucille Clifton
• Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa
• Diwata by Barbara Jane Reyes
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