Week 6: Introduction to Stephen Dunn's Poetry
Prior to Class:
- Read: Biographical information on "Stephen Dunn" on PoetryFoundation.org
- Read: "Aerial in the Pines," "After Making Love," "All that We Have," "Always Something More Beautiful," "Androgyne," any 5 poems from here, and any 3 poems from here.
- Watch: 5-10 minutes of any of the videos here.
- Write: 2 double-spaced pages discussing 2 or 3 of the poems you read, describing stylistic/aesthetic/themeatic characteristics you see as being features within them and/or Dunn's work. Be sure to pay attention to dates of publication (and, if you can determine them, dates of composition)--that is, if you're noting a feature that seems to recur ("Dunn is preoccupied with political power in these works") consider whether your selected poems date from around the same time, suggesting a period in which Dunn is working through a specific interest in x or y, or if they were written years apart, possibly indicating a long-term interest in x or y.
- Explore: Finding aids for Hofstra Rare Books and Manuscripts & University Archives: Go here and then click on "Access the Collection" at the bottom to pull up a long document on the holdings and then scroll through it, skimming to see possibilities. Then go here to find the link for the Finding Aid for the University Archives, click on "Access the Collection," and then from there find Stephen Dunn's name in the list of items. Click on Dunn's name and then the Finding Aid for the collection from there to see the holdings.
During Class:
- We will discuss the poems we read and discuss Dunn's style as we've come to think of it based on our reading.
- We will also discuss our experiences using and visiting sites made in Omeka and Scalar.
- Read: three articles on Dunn, Kathleen Graber, "In-Dwelling: Stephen Dunn in Deadwood," The Georgia Review, 65 (2011): 364-377; Laura Mccullough, "Between Worlds, Refuge: Stephen Dunn and the Creative Writing Workshop," The Georgia Review, 65 (2011): 353-363; and Jeanne-Andrée Nelson, "Of Sand and Storm in the Poetry of Stephen Dunn" Southern Humanities Review 36 (2002): 229-238.
- Review the Stephen Dunn papers finding aid and send requests for specific boxes as soon as possible.
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