READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEK OF OCTOBER 6-12, 2008

Don't forget to blog! Blog postings for the week of September 28-October 5 will be due by midnight on Sunday, October 5.

For Monday, October 6, please make sure you're current/caught up on the Elizabeth Bishop readings (see prior post).

For Wednesday, October 8, please read all of the poems/selections in the Norton anthology on Randall Jarrell and John Berryman.

Here are some links on Jarrell and Berryman to give you additional information/context:

Randall Jarrell at The Academy of American Poets

Randall Jarrell at Modern American Poetry

John Berryman at The Academy of American Poets

John Berryman at Modern American Poetry

Additional Recommended Articles on Jarrell and Berryman can be located in Project Muse, from the USD library research databases: http://www.usd.edu/library/research/ - On this page, scroll down to the listing of databases, click on Project Muse, search for Randall Jarrell or John Berryman, and the following articles will come right up in full-text format:

"Sentimental Education: Randall Jarrell Among the Women," by Gail Mcdonald, Modernism/Modernity, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1998), pp. 1-21.

"Public Dreams: Berryman, Celebrity, and the Culture of Confession," by David Haven
Blake," American Literary History, Vol. 13, No. 4 (2001), pp. 716-736.

For Friday, October 10: Visiting poet Bruce Covey, from Emory University will be reading/talking to our class!! Please also plan on attending Bruce Covey's poetry reading at 3:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the National Music Museum!!!