Week 1: Previously, on American Poetry – Postmodern Experimental Poetry

Wednesday, January 18

In class:

Introductions:
- Name (pronouns, if you like)
- Concentration
- Favorite poets
- Do you write poetry?
Syllabus discussion and negotiation
Lecture: Previously, on American Poetry

Assignment:

Order your textbooks!
In Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entries on Romanticism and Modernism
Read “A Retrospect” and “A Few Don’ts” by Ezra Pound
Read “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound
Write a brief analysis of how the principles Ezra Pound discusses in “A Retrospect” and “A Few Don’ts” are put into practice in “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.” How is this poem different in approach from the Romantic poems we discussed today?
- Post in our ASULearn discussion forum before class on Monday.

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.

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