Works in Progress: Poetry Discussion Group

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This course offers students an opportunity to explore the writing and editing processes of poetry in an in-depth manner. The notion of poet as conduit versus poet as craftsman is grounds for much debate. How certain can we be that what comes to us from our muse is as Pound said, “The best words in the best order”? We hold up to the light the roles of biography and geography and their inevitable shadow over the lives of the poets we study.