Contemporary Lit. The Readings for Presentations.

9:30 Class: Instruction Manual John Ashbery . 2645 EmilyMasley Ulysses Gwendolyn Brooks p. 2504 Timothy Kuhne Portrait of a Madonna Tennessee Williams p. 2320 What we Talk about when we Talk about Love Raymond Carver p. 3013 Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath p. 2840 In the Field by Tim O' Brien The Fish Elizabeth Bishop 2314 The Man Moth Elizabeth Bishop Dova ste Amore Laurence Ferlinghetti p. 2256 Young Housewife Anne Sexton 2834 Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth 2797 For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 2504 Hart Crane Robert Creeley 2634-35 Stations by Audre Lorde 2896 ------------------------------------------------ 12:30 Class Root Cellar Theodore Roethke p. 1906 I put on my Jacket. p. 2661 Heavy Women Sylvia Plath (google search) Ducks Naomi Shihab Nye Entropy Thomas Pynchon Beneath the Freeway Lorna Dee Cervantes Conversion of the Jews Roth The Rats Philip Levin 2663 Where are you Going... Joyce Carol Oates 3043 America Allen Ginsberg Counting Small-Boned Bodies Robert Bly 2755 My Heart Frank O'Hara 2641 I am a Cowboy... Ishmael Reed 3056 Who Among You Knows... Garrett Hongo 2945 From a Survivor Adrienne Rich

Contemporary Literature

04/14 Discussion of stories. Homework: These are the stories we will be discussing next: The Conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth Cathedral by Raymond Carver and To Robby (go to this link: http://cf.linnbenton.edu/artcom/english/thornbs/upload/Our%20Time.pdf) and read page 2 beginning with "Stories are letters" and read to the bottom of the page. Homework: Select a piece of literature from your anthology and respond to it in a piece of art (any genre or medium including prose/music/photography/poetry/visual art/film/animation/comic etc.) Be prepared to present your piece to the class on April 24th. An example: I read Poppies by Sylvia Plath and produce a series of photographs taken at an abattoir (slaughterhouse) or or the Bluebird response in video that we watched in response to Bukowski or... you name it. THESE PIECES MUST BE READY ON TIME in order for me to be able to get them graded and allow for any extra time needed. On April 14th or 16th, please plan to let the class know what you will be presenting upon so that we might read it in advance of your presentation. This will be your final assignment for the course, so make it meaningful. (When you arrive in class on Wednesday, go up to the board and write the title, author, and page number.)

Contemporary Literature Readings

Reading Homework: Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin Scarlet Ibis by James Hearst White Angel by Michael Cunningham Everyday Use by Alice Walker The Conversion of the Jews by Phillip Roth 04/07-04/11 M: Discussion of Baldwin, Hearst and Cunningham W: Discussion of Roth & Walker Homework: Reading: The Beat Movement Introduction The Source Homework: Select a piece of literature from your anthology and respond to it in a piece of art (any genre or medium including prose/music/photography/poetry/visual art/film/animation/comic etc.) Be prepared to present your piece to the class, on the last week of April. Prior to that, by April 14, please plan to let us know what you will be presenting upon so that we might read it in advance of your presentation. This will be your final assignment for the course, so make it meaningful. 04/14-04/18 M Readings discussed W Readings discussed