FOR FEB 22


1. Please hand in the Oeding manuscript with corrections
inside it, or a list of corrections, which is what Chrissy did.
This is graded--I mean, A if it's done, a big goose egg if it's
not. Reading to proof is a publishing kind of way to read--
it's part of that world: the close, close reading for mistakes
and content. It's amazing how much you learn about poetry
reading this way, arduous as it seems it may be.

2. In the anthology. Read Elizabeth Bishop and Robert
Lowell. They were very close friends. Write a 150
word paragraph (typed) on each poet (due a week from
this coming Tuesday). Which do you prefer, which poems
(singly) do you favor and why. Make an effort to read
with history in mind. In other words, read imaginatively,
understanding how these poets must have sounded
revolutionary at the times they were writing.

3. Nancy will be in class on Tuesday. Write (type) two questions
on a nice sheet of paper and hand it in first thing. This too,
as with the above Oeding assignment, and the Lowell and Bishop
assignment, involves, possibly, a goose egg.

4. We'll get through as many of your poems as possible. Please
read them at home.

5. (I've altered this.) Please, on March 8, bring in 3 to 5 poems
added to your ongoing manuscript. Copy everything, including
the poems we already looked at, revised if you wish, or in
a different order. We will look at the new stuff in order to
determine whether or not it is advancing your manuscript's, well,
proposal. Meaning: if it fulfilling its promise, based on the
first several poems, of being somehow cohesive and continuous-
seeming while being unpredictable?

6. The assigning of a couple lit mags will take place on Tuesday.