Collage Poetics

Within this course, American poetry of the late 20th and the 21st centuries will serve as our primary textual/material object, but our conceptual object (or optic) will be derived, in the first instance, from work in visual media and various accounts of that work. Of course, distinctions between the visual and the verbal, the graphic and the discursive, often break down within collage practices. Writers will include Brion Gysin, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Susan Howe, Robin Coste Lewis, and Tan Lin. Some of our time will be spent in the Regenstein’s Special Collections, and in the Smart Museum.

ENGL 22021 | ENGL 40001 | CCCT 22021 | ENGL 40001