Reading
As the title indicates, this course will engage with two fundamental aspects of poetic writing: the pleasure of lying (enjoying the limits and instability of truth) and the ruined form (collapsed expectations, broken meter, voided resolution). Prior to class, students will receive a packet of poems by writers whose work demonstrates particular interest in these concerns, such as Kamau Brathwaite, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jane Gregory and Julian Talamantez Brolaski. They will then be invited to submit a poem of their own, guided and informed by this reading, which we will workshop together as a class. Life will wake you up : )