So I'm only taking 2 courses this fall... with baby coming, I felt it best to take it easy. Of course, I'm also Poetry Editor at Third Coast and I'll be reading for New Issues again this year (where I'm Assistant to the Editor, whatever that means), so all of that combined with learning French for the language exam, studying for comps, and other responsibilities, 2 classes seemed enough. It sucks because I'll then be behind, but I'm hoping to take two lit classes (or a lit and a theory) in the spring and a lit course over the summer. Then I can take some classes next fall and spring and do comps the next summer... I'll be too old and poor when I finally get out of here! Gosh, this PhD is exhausting to think about!
At any rate, here's the books I'll be reading for class this fall. I'm taking a Dante class and a workshop/contemporary poetry course with Bill Olsen (who's a great fucking poet if you haven't read him yet).
Back to writing... actually got a couple drafts down today. Had too many notes and post-its laying around.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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I envy you for getting to take a Dante class. In all the English departments of all the schools I've attended, there was never a Dante class. I'm somewhat amazed that there's a class devoted to a non-English-speaking author.
The Mandelbaum translations are good; those are the ones I read. Though the new Hollander translations look like they may be even better.
I must admit, I like Vita Nuova better than the Comedy.
BTW: Did you know that Joyce patterned his works on Dante's pattern? Portrait is equivalent to Vita Nuova, Ulysses is Inferno, Finnegans Wake is Purgatorio, and the book that was supposed to follow the Wake would probably have been equivalent to Paradiso.
Enjoy!
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