READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2006

Important!! Don't forget that Modeling Poem #2 will be due in class today! (Please also post your poems and analyses to your blogs so that others can check in as time allows.) You may model any poet studied in the class thus far, provided that you didn't already model this poet in your first modeling assignment. Also, don't forget to include a two-page (5000-word) analysis that discusses the specific ways in which your poem is imitating the style traits of your chosen poet/poem.

Please read/print out the following articles, which are available as Full-Text Articles from WilsonSelectPlus in the USD Library Research Databases. To access WilsonSelectPlus, click HERE to get to the USD Library Research Databases page. Next, click on Arts and Humanities. On the next screen, click on Language and Literature. On the screen after that, click on Arts and Humanities Search. You'll be taken to a screen next that has a drop-down menu for databases to search, at which point you'll want to replace AH Search with WilsonSelectPlus on the drop-down menu. Now you can simply type in article or author titles to pull up the full-text articles from the WilsonSelectPlus database. (Please note that at some point during this process you'll most likely be prompted for your USD User ID and Password).

"Dedications: Lowell's 'Skunk Hour' and Bishop's 'The Armadillo,'", by Lloyd Schwartz, Salmagundi, No. 141/142 (Winter Spring 2004).

"Elizabeth Bishop's 'Queer Birds': Vassar, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community," by Bethany Hicok, Contemporary Literature< , Vol. 40 No. 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 285-310.

"Elizabeth Bishop's Stories of Childhood: Writing the Disaster," by Andre Furlani, Critique, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Winter 2002).

Please also read the following poems from Elizabeth Bishop's Complete Poems 1927-1976:

"The Map," p. 3
"The Man-Moth," p. 14
"Florida," p. 32
"Roosters," p. 35
"The Fish," p. 42
"A Cold Sring," p. 55
"Over 2,000 Illustrations," p. 57
"The Bight," p. 60
"At the Fishhouses," p. 64
"Cape Breton," p. 67
"Insomnia," p. 70
"Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore," p. 82
"The Shampoo," p. 84

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And finally, here is this week's memoir prompt from The Autobiography Box for blog posts due by midnight on Monday, November 6, 2006:

Remember something or somebody you pursued with a passion. How old were you when this happened? Does it seem a rite of passage, or a turning point in growing up? Did you get the thing or that person? If so, was it worth it? If not, do you have regrets?