In class, we are going to try some poetry experiments, after looking at examples of several well-known experiments. These include Tom Phillips’s A Humument, Jackson MacLow’s The Virginia Woolf Poems, the Surrealist experiment known as exquisite corpse, and some from Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments. We will also discuss and write found poetry.
The source material for our experiments will be the Junot Diaz texts you read, namely “The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao,” and the one other of your choosing that you read. That’s why you need to be sure to have printed them to bring to class.
