Poetry for Pleasure in the Spring, with Barry Wallenstein

Poetry for Pleasure in the Spring, with Barry Wallenstein
April 9, 2024 @ 1:00-2:15pm
These lectures with discussion will involve close readings of poems – classic, modern, and contemporary. Our aim is to listen to the sound poems make. What makes a successful language performance? We will discuss these works’ emotional truth, unity of expression, and attention-holding, pleasure-providing use of language. Barry’s guest poet this week is Grace Schulman.
 
In our class on April 9, we’ll discuss the following poems:  

• To Sleep by John Keats – p. 10
• Letter to New York by Elizabeth Bishop – p. 34
• Imaginary Conversation by Linda Pastan – p.71
• Moon Shell & The Monument by Grace Schulman – p. 75-76
• Hide and Seek by Charles Simic – p. 70
• Sunday by Stephen Sondheim – p.89
• From our own – pp. 91-94
• If We Must Die by Claude McKay – p. 30

Here is the poetry book for the semester:  
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