Female Voices, Canonic Verses

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This upper-division literature course that explores poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on female poets who dialogue with, and reinvent how and what we understand to be the canon. Over the course of the semester, we will study a collection of voices from the poetic world, with diverse arrangements of form, method and style. Our engagement with contemporary female voices will draw from the modern and contemporary American, British, Spanish and Latin American literary traditions. The aim of our readings will be to contemplate what language is and how it functions - what language does, what it creates, how it works/acts/performs on us; how we, reciprocally, might work/act/perform and create things with it.