Sleeping With the Dictionary and Writing Assignments

Helpful Interview with Mullen: http://jacketmagazine.com/40/iv-mullen-ivb-henning.shtml

While reading, and looking at individual poems, think about:

language and play

social and cultural context

implicit or explicit commentary/critique


Assignments: 

- weekly blog

- Critical Response Assignment (see EMU Online for Assignment sheet)

- Choose one of the following, or do both...write: 

N + 7 (find a piece of prose 10-20 lines or sentences long and perform the N + 7 procedure on the piece, see what you get) (see instructions on EMU Online)

a sonnet impersonation or interpretation: take a Shakespeare sonnet and "rewrite" it in some way (see Mullen's "Dim Lady" and Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 for example)



- assignment from Monday, from Literary Theory Toolkit: write a piece that incorporates some thinking from the language poetry, new sentence, or sound/concrete poetry section (choose one); this is open to interpretation so think about what Rapaport is saying about that particular kind of writing and create a piece of your own which comes from that kind of thinking about writing. You can use a topic or theme from the text as a starting point, or rewrite/imitate one of the examples he gives in your own words.