Readings/Assignments for Thursday, January 20, 2005

Please click on the links below (unless otherwise noted) to download, print off, and read the following materials:

Life Studies: American Poetry from T.S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg, an online poetry exhibit from the Academy of American Poets.

Confessional Poetry, by Donna M. Ford.

Confessional Poetry and the Artifice of Honesty, by David Yezzi (from The New Criterion, Vol. 16, No. 10, June 1998, pp. 14-21).

No Room in the Booth?: An Appreciation of Confessional Poetry, by Kathleen Osip (from The Writer's Chronicle, February 2001, pp. 45-53). (Will download as a Word document).

Postmodernism, by Professor Mary Klages, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Chapter One - The Poet's Voice as Persona, from Creating Another Self: Voice in Modern American Personal Poetry, by Samuel Maio (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1995). (Will download as a PDF document).

91 Revere Street, by Robert Lowell, from Life Studies, 1959. (Will download as a PDF document).

Please also read the following poems by Robert Lowell from your Selected Poems book:

"The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," p. 6.
"Beyond the Alps," p. 55.
"To Delmore Schwartz," p. 66.
"Memories of West Street and Lepke," p. 91.
"Skunk Hour," p. 95.