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This graduate seminar will encourage students to engage critically with a selection of literary and critical work by a number of innovative British, American and Commonwealth poets working in the latter twentieth and twenty-first centuries, such as Bob Cobbing, Charles Olson, Denise Riley, Aime Caesair, Robert Creeley, J.H. Prynne, Frank O´Hara, John Ashbery, Geraldine Monk, Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, Steve McCaffery, Alice Notley, Allen Fisher, Ted Berrigan, Barbara Guest, John Tranter, Lyn Hejinian, Marjorie Welish, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Andrea Bradey, Keston Sutherland, Maggie O'Sullivan, Clark Coolidge, Caroline Bergvall, Johanna Drucker, Gig Ryan, John Kinsella, Lyn Hejinian, Steve McCaffery, Susan Howe, Johanna Drucker, David Antin, Rosaire Appel & others. *Assessment will be based upon: 1. attendance (max. absences: 2); 2. weekly 300-word report (due the day before class); 3. a 3000 word research paper focused upon the work of one or more of the poets / topics discussed during the seminar, within a critical theoretical framework (due 16 June). Schedule 19.2 Intro 26.2 Intro (continued) 5.3 Black Mountain 12.3 Beat 18.3 The New American Poetry 25.3 British Poetry Revival 2.4 no class 9.4 Fluxus 16.4 L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 23.4 Concrete / Digital / Conceptual 30.4 Asemic 7.5 Erasurism 14.5 Concluding Discussion
1. DENISE RILEY AIME CESAIRE
Louis Armand (ed.), Contemporary Poetics (Evanston: Northwest University Press, 2007): https://www.academia.edu/63426481/CONTEMPORARY_POETICS_edited_by_Louis_Armand Donald Allen (ed.), The New American Poetry (1960) Donald Allen & Warren Tallman (eds.), The Poetics of the New American Poetry (New York: Grove, 1973) Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram (eds.), The New British Poetry 1968-88 (1988) Ron Silliman (ed.), In the American Tree: Language, Realism, Poetry (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1986) Iain Sinclair (ed.), Conductors of Chaos (Picador, 1996) Marjorie Perloff, The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999) Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre Joris (eds.), Poems for the Millennium (2 vols; University of California Press) Paul Hoover (ed), Postmodern American Poetry (WW Norton, 1994) Louis Armand (ed.), Avant-Post (Litteraria Pragensia, 2006) https://litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/avant-post/ Louis Armand (ed), Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics (Litteraria Pragensia, 2010) https://litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/hidden-agendas/ David & Christine Kennedy (eds), Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970–2010: Body, Time and Locale (Liverpool UP, 2013) Alex Balgiu & Mónica de la Torre (eds), Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 (Primary Information, 2020) Peter Schwenger, Asemic: The Art of Writing (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) Jerome McGann, Postmodern Poetries (1990) Christophe Wall-Romana, Cinepoetry: imaginary cinemas in French poetry (Fordham University Press, 2013) Michael Golston, Poetic machinations: allegory, surrealism, and postmodern poetic form (Columbia University Press, 2015) Matt Theado (ed) The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry (2021) Robert Bailey, Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds (Duke University Press, 2016) Andrea Andersson, PostScript: Writing After Conceptual Art (University of Toronto Press, 2018) Christopher Funkhouser & Sandy Baldwin, Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms (University Alabama Press, 2007) John Kinsella, Polysituatedness: A Poetics of Displacement (Manchester University Press, 2017) Nicholas Thoburn, Anti-book: on the art and politics of radical publishing (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes (2015) Kathleen Fraser, Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (University of Alabama Press, 2000) Silverberg Mark, The New York School poets and the neo-avant-garde (2010) David W. Huntsperger, Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry: Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, Hejinian (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) International Poetry Incarnation, Royal Albert Hall, 1965 (dir. Peter Whitehead) Poslední úprava: Armand Louis, Ph.D. (21.02.2026)
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