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WOC190 Spring 2021 Session 4

Class Notes and Homework Assignments

Day 12

Thurs. Apr. 29

  • What makes a good ending?

  • Reading by Hester

  • Observation and practice “I Remember”

Homework

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WOC190 - Final project
WOC190 - Final project

Due at midnight (11:59pm) on Sunday May 14 (China time)

Choose one of your three essays—the one you’re proudest of, or most interested in improving—and revise it into a complete, polished work that you could imagine being published in the Literary Atlas of DKU, or elsewhere.

➤ Work on final project

Continue to work on the essay you’ve chosen. When you want feedback on a draft, message me to make an appointment. (The earlier, the better! If you wait till the last minute, I may not have time.)

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Joe Brainard, "I Remember" (excerpts)
Joe Brainard, "I Remember" (excerpts)

Excerpts from the book I Remember, in which painter and poet Joe Brainard recalls his childhood in a series of brief vignettes, each of which begins with the words “I Remember.”

➤ Read, observe, and write “I Remembers”

Read the excerpts from “I Remember” by Joe Brainard. As you read, notice the patterns that emerge in these fragments. How do the fragments relate to each other? Do you notice similarities / contrasts between fragments? How do the fragments travel back and forth in time? What themes do you notice recurring?

Then, write your own “I Remembers.” Aim for about 2 pages’ worth. (Use this as an exercise in “automatic writing” — try to produce a lot of writing. Keep writing constantly, just whatever comes to mind. Then delete the ones you don’t like and keep the ones you like.)

Upload your “I Remembers” to Box, to the folder titled “I Remember.”

➤ Read classmates’ Aphorisms and Poems

Read your classmates’ the aphorisms (the ones expressing what they believe) and their “postcards from the present” turned into poems.

Come ready to share one aphorism you particularly and one poem you particularly like, and be ready to share a few observations about that aphorism or poem.

Austin Woerner