In \u201cPoetry Now,\u201d students read and write about books by contemporary North American poets, to appraise the varied ways in which poetry engages with the world. Students also engage creatively with these books, to explore authors\u2019 thematic, linguistic, aesthetic, and formal intentions.<\/p>\n
To complement our reading of his book, The Constitution<\/em> (Black Ocean, 2014), poet Brian Foley asked students to write two short poems: the first using declarative language to make an assertion about the self; the second (amendment) poem, qualifying, negating, or refracting the emotional logic of the source poem.<\/p>\n In this wonderfully ambitious and ethically complex poem, Jimmy Sbordone demonstrates his understanding of Foley\u2019s use of line and stanza breaks to create and destabilize meaning, to defamiliarize language so that we see and hear it anew. The title carries quietly across sections, both enacting and bridging the seeming distance between a violent history and humanity. Additionally, Jimmy displayed persistent curiosity as he grappled with similar concerns across genres. He wrote about astronomy in \u201cIs Violence\u2014,\u201d as well as in his final critical engagement with Foley\u2019s book and Cathy Linh Che\u2019s Split<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0JESSICA BOZEK<\/strong><\/p>\n WR 100: Poetry Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In \u201cPoetry Now,\u201d students read and write about books by contemporary North American poets, to appraise the varied ways in which poetry engages with the world. Students also engage creatively with these books, to explore authors\u2019 thematic, linguistic, aesthetic, and formal intentions. To complement our reading of his book, The Constitution (Black Ocean, 2014), poet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"parent":9594,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9813,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9627\/revisions\/9813"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}