English 260-001
Introduction to Poetry: Language Writing and the Avant-Garde
Instr: Laskowski, David
Office: CRT 518; 229-5441
e-mail: djl@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: MW; 9:30-10:45am; MIT B14
Course Description
In this class we will examine those poets who are considered to be language writers - writers who, coming of age in the tumultuous sixties, looked to poetry to construct new ways to fight the fight. These writers found their inspiration not only in the music and philosophy of that time, but in the revolutionary poetics of the avant-garde - a movement in literature that at the turn of the century fundamentally changed the conception of how literature could be political. In this class, we will examine not only what makes the language writers "revolutionary," but how they owe their revolution to a variety of avant garde-isms.
