AMST 3820

Poetry and Poetics of the Americas

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the Americas? How might we characterize its dominant forms and alternative practices? What shared influences, affiliations, concerns and approaches might we find and what convergences and differences emerge? Ranging across North and South America, Central America and the Caribbean, this course will place in conversation such figures as Poe, Pound, Stein, Williams, Neruda, Vallejo, Borges, Parra, Bolaño, Césaire, Nourbese Philip, Hong, Long Soldier, Rankine, Lamar, Kaminsky, and Xie.

Course Attribute (EC-LASP)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2021SP

Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)

When Offered Spring.

Comments Ability to read Spanish desirable but not required; texts not written in English will be available in both translation and the original.

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