Dear Listmates:
I'll be giving a talk at the "Poetry and Pedagogy" symposium at Bard in
late June, and am planning to talk about poems that respond to or come out
of a pedagogical situation or that take a pedagogical stance. Taking off
from the aphorism in *My Life* that "the avant-garde is always
pedagogical," my focus will be mainly--but not exclusively--on
linguistically innovative (or whatever you want to call 'em) texts.
Historical range is post-World War II, going from 1950s examples like
Snodgrass' "April Inventory" and Olson's "Letter for Melville 1951"
through something like Snyder's "What you should know to be a Poet" up
through some of Howe's library- and scholarship-centered texts and
Perelman's "Marginalization of Poetry." The governing question of the
inquiry is something like this, then: How has "pedagogy," and pedagogical
institutions, been treated in poems of this period, and what
might the answers
to that question suggest for transforming current pedagogical practice,
for the teaching of challenging contemporary work, and for our
understanding of such issues as the relationship between innovative
writing and the academy?
I'd like to draw on your collective knowledge / wisdom to generate as many
examples as possible of poems related to this set of concerns. I'm mostly
interested in U.S. examples, but would also like to hear about Canadian,
British, Oz, etc. examples too. I want to distinguish between
"pedagogical" and "didactic" too, so am a bit less interested in examples
of the latter (i.e., Olson preaching to Gloucester, say).
Anyway, I'd much appreciate hearing from you: front channel if you think
the list would be interested and the list-meisters agree, or backchannel
at one of these addresses: [log in to unmask] or
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And many thanks.
All best,
Alan
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Alan Golding
University of Louisville
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502-852-6801
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