Poetry & the National Consciousness

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This course focuses on a selection of contemporary U.S. poets from traditionally underrepresented groups whose work explicitly explores identity, inequity, power, and prejudice in the U.S. With emphasis on exploration and experimentation, students in the course will read poems to appreciate the language, musicality and other poetic choices in form and style; study how poets use and create new forms to wed the personal with the political; research cultural context of poems; and identify images of the U.S. past and present in the poems studied. Prerequisite: ENGL 111