On Friday, we'll wrap up our time with Bernadette Mayer, and begin looking at the work of Anne Waldman as well (depending on which poems you're interested in discussing, we can split the class half and half, or work exclusively with one of the poets). Though Waldman often gets lumped in with the Beat Generation poets (largely due to her co-founding the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg), Waldman's roots are clearly in the New York School — aside from running the St. Mark's Poetry Project for a number of years, she co-edited the influential journal and press Angel Hair with her then-husband Lewis Warsh. As with Bernadette Mayer, there aren't a great many recordings of her earlier work available on her PennSound author page, but it's worth listening to a few tracks, just to get a feel for her vocal style, especially given the emphasis placed on a litany-based performativity in her later works (starting with "Fast Speaking Woman"), which result in raucous live performances.
All readings are in Helping the Dreamer: New & Selected Poems 1966-1988:
Friday, March 6th:
- After "Les Fleurs" (2)
- College Under Water (3)
- The De Carlo Lots (5)
- How the Sestina (Yawn) Works (12)
- My Kind of Man (14)
- Diaries (15)
- Paul Eluard (16)
Monday, March 9th:
- Paris Day (27)
- Snow (29)
- *Giant Night* (30)
- Fast Speaking Woman (36)
- & do what I know best (72)
- Distance Traveled (73)
- For J.A. as Dusk Deepens Canyon (74)
- Divorce Work (78)
- Mirror Meditation (92)
Wednesday, March 11th:
- True Story of Being at the Pool (98)
- Number Song (106)
- Baby's Pantoum (109)
- Baby & the Gypsy (113)
- A Phonecall from Frank O'Hara (150)
- The Lie (157)
- Triolet (180)
- The Stick (199)
- Out There (201)
- Sonnet: O Husband! (209)
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