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Documentary Poetry, August, 2010

Susan M. Schultz

Professor of English

University of Hawai`i-Manoa

sschultz@hawaii.edu


The 30th Annual American Studies Forum

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

10:30 am – 12:20 pm (Break: 11:20 am -30 am) 

http://www.cape.edu/programs/american/index.html


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What is documentary poetry?  An answer by Phil Metres: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=180213

selections from Charles Reznikoff's Testimony at Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5667
    --on Testimony's link to the law. (1885-1915, published in the 1970s): http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/29-1/watson.html
    --on Reznikoff, from Modern American Poetry site on-line: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/reznikoff/reznikoff.htm

Muriel Rukeyser, backgrounds and poems, from Modern American Poetry site on-line. http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rukeyser/rukeyser.htm
    --Please read her "The Book of the Dead" (1938) (XEROX)

William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Book One. (1946): http://books.google.com/books?id=ao2cNpNn5ZcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=selections+from+Paterson+william+carlos+williams&source=bl&ots=jjP9ft1-tw&sig=EAwzaRjFfLBZke_vnZ9iW1dFUR8&hl=en&ei=xcv-S66BKpC4NZOc6Ts&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

from Mark Nowak's Shut Up, Shut Down: "$00 / Line / Steel / Train," (Coffee House Press, 2004): http://books.google.com/books?id=e1_jlo8jj5EC&dq=mark+nowak+shut+up+shut+down&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=kMv9S9aVOpr0MsO0ud4H&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

from Craig Santos Perez, from Unincorporated Territory (Tinfish Press, 2008) (XEROX)
    --interview with Craig Perez: http://lanternreview.com/blog/2010/03/12/the-page-transformed-a-conversation-with-craig-santos-perez/

from Susan M. Schultz's Dementia Blog (Singing Horse Press, 2008): http://jacketmagazine.com/35/schultz-dementia.shtml
    --review of DB by Eileen Tabios: http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/dementia-blog-by-susan-m-schultz.html

Claudia Keelan's "Everybody's Autobiography" (2010): https://www.aprweb.org/poem/everybody039s-autobiography
(American Poetry Review)

Kaia Sand, from Remember to Wave (Tinfish Press, 2010): (XEROX)
    --interview with Kaia Sand: http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2010/03/poet_walks_back_into_history.html

from Joseph Harrington's Things Come On: An Amneoir (forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press, 2011):
    http://www.cricketonlinereview.com/vol5no1/harrington1.php
    --also read Harrington's essay "'Docupoetry' and Archive Desire." (XEROX)