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Oct. 1st, 2006 01:24 amWhat would I teach? Have to be some subset of what I love, surely. Successive pairs of socks were knocked off by:
Most (American subset): Moby-Dick, "Piazza", "Encantadas", "Benito Cereno", "I & My Chimney", I think "Bartleby"; Dickinson--weirder the better, but basically every word
Next-most: "Bacchus"; tons of Frost; Bishop: Man-Moth, At the Fishhouses, Crusoe in England, Outside Ouro Preto, Sestina (not One Art, the other one) etc.; Engine Summer, Little Big & Aegypt (candidates for promotion to most--must reread); Sabbath's Theater, My Life as a Man, The Anatomy Lesson, Operation Shylock, "The Conversion of the Jews"; E.A. Robinson; Hawthorne: "Goodman Brown" & "Molineux", "Earth's Holocaust" and many others; "Voyages"; Sanctuary & Light in August
Next-next: Emerson's prose and other poems, and Melville's art and water ones; Glass Essay/Autobiography of Red/Beauty of the Husband, other works; any Ammons poem taking place by a shore or empty lot; river parts of Huck Finn; much in Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses; "The Open Boat" and "A Ball of Gold"; the night walk in Crying of Lot 49; Miss Lonelyhearts; Thurber's "Peacelike Mongoose" and My Life and Hard Times, "The Secret Life of James Thurber" and the thing with the intolerable artist; Stevens' "Long and Sluggish Lines", "Ordinary Evening at New Haven", WW2 poems, everything else he wrote; "The Burning" & "A Still Moment"; "November Sunday Morning"
Red Badge of Courage, at 16. Whitman in ways I have trouble analyzing. Flashes of Stickneys and Cranches and Bryants, Coles, Adamses. Something in Mamet I'm not sure is of any universal importance, maybe best seen in The Woods. A Portrait of a Lady's somehow making air real. Scraps of earliest Eliot. I can't remember if the Scarlet Letter. Select O'Connor outrages. Hemingway stories as a teen, forget just which.
Liked many many other things but not quite barefoot.
Most (American subset): Moby-Dick, "Piazza", "Encantadas", "Benito Cereno", "I & My Chimney", I think "Bartleby"; Dickinson--weirder the better, but basically every word
Next-most: "Bacchus"; tons of Frost; Bishop: Man-Moth, At the Fishhouses, Crusoe in England, Outside Ouro Preto, Sestina (not One Art, the other one) etc.; Engine Summer, Little Big & Aegypt (candidates for promotion to most--must reread); Sabbath's Theater, My Life as a Man, The Anatomy Lesson, Operation Shylock, "The Conversion of the Jews"; E.A. Robinson; Hawthorne: "Goodman Brown" & "Molineux", "Earth's Holocaust" and many others; "Voyages"; Sanctuary & Light in August
Next-next: Emerson's prose and other poems, and Melville's art and water ones; Glass Essay/Autobiography of Red/Beauty of the Husband, other works; any Ammons poem taking place by a shore or empty lot; river parts of Huck Finn; much in Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses; "The Open Boat" and "A Ball of Gold"; the night walk in Crying of Lot 49; Miss Lonelyhearts; Thurber's "Peacelike Mongoose" and My Life and Hard Times, "The Secret Life of James Thurber" and the thing with the intolerable artist; Stevens' "Long and Sluggish Lines", "Ordinary Evening at New Haven", WW2 poems, everything else he wrote; "The Burning" & "A Still Moment"; "November Sunday Morning"
Red Badge of Courage, at 16. Whitman in ways I have trouble analyzing. Flashes of Stickneys and Cranches and Bryants, Coles, Adamses. Something in Mamet I'm not sure is of any universal importance, maybe best seen in The Woods. A Portrait of a Lady's somehow making air real. Scraps of earliest Eliot. I can't remember if the Scarlet Letter. Select O'Connor outrages. Hemingway stories as a teen, forget just which.
Liked many many other things but not quite barefoot.
