Poetry Workshop - AAA201008

• Title: Tvůrčí psaní: poezie
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2011
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAA500804
• Guarantor: James Ragan

Annotation

The Poetry Workshop will focus on daily critiques of individual poems with supplemental lectures on the dominant literary
theorists of the Twentieth century and the resulting poetics which have influencedboth contemporary American and Czech
writing. It is the hope that an understanding of the eclectic nature of the poetics discussed will be integrated in the student´s
own writing throughout workshop sessions. We will critique existing or newly conceived works with the intention of
completeing a chapbook of at least 5 or 6 poems (depending upon how ambitious we can be). Lectures as listed in the full
syllabus may be interchanged or rescheduled as needed to allow ample ime for poetry critiques. My goal is to allow each
writer the personal exploration of his or her own style, voice, and poetics.

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

Literature

áíSuggested course texts:
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (ed. Richard Ellman, W. W. Norton, 1973)

New Writing in Czechoslovakia (ed. George Theiner, Penguin USA)

The Contemporary American Poets (ed. Mark Strand, Penguin USA)

Contemporary American Poetry: The Southern California Anthology (ed. J. Ragan, USC)

The Boundaries of Twilight: Czecho-Slovak Writing from the New World (ed. C. J. Hribal, New Rivers Press, Minn 1991)

The Casting of Bells by Jaroslav Seifert (The Spirit That Moves Us Press, Iowa)

Suggested Supplementary Reading:
Dressed in Light by Jaroslav Seifert (Dolphin-Moon Press, NY)

Eight Days by Jaroslav Seifert (The Spirit That Moves Us Press, Iowa)

Mozart in Prague by Jaroslav Seifert (The Spirit That Moves Us Press, Iowa)

The Plague Monument by Jaroslav Seifert (SVU Press, Czech Society of Arts and Sciences)

Selected Poems by Vladimír Holan (Penguin Modern Poets Series)

A Cave of the Words by Vladimír Holan, 1965

Selected Poems by Miroslav Holub (Penguin Modern European Poets Series, 1967)

Where the Blood Flows by Miroslav Holub, 1968

Thanathea by Ivan Diviš, 1968

A Treansparent Head by Ivan Diviš, 1965

The Hollow Shore by Ivan Wernisch, 1967

We Got Lost by Jan Skácel, 1968

Selected Poems: Chance Witness by Jiří Kolář, 1965

Red Strawberries by Antonín Bartušek, 1967

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

Teaching methods

workshop

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)