Virtual
NA, WA NA
United States
Registration Required.
Join Rick Barot, author of The Galleons, for a workshop on poetry, looking at poems with powerful content and the syntactical correlatives the poets use in dramatizing that content.
The problem at the heart of writing a poem is the problem of dramatization. That is, how do we dramatize in language–an arguably limited means–the dynamics of thought, sensation, mystery, knowledge, and unsayability that often comprise human experience? In this class, we’ll discuss the crucial importance of syntax in vitalizing a poem. We’ll look at poems with powerful content and the syntactical correlatives the poets use in dramatizing that content. The poems will include the work of Louise Glück, Sharon Olds, Arthur Sze, and many others.
This class will take place via video-conferencing (Zoom), Pacific Time.
Rick Barot
In The Galleons, Rick Barot widens his scope, contextualizing the immigrant journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and aftermath of colonialism.