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Ron Silliman

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Topics for research and critical analysis:

    • Analyze Ron Silliman's poetry exploring his sources: Gertrude Stein, Russian Formalism, projectivist poets, and Louis Zukofsky.

 

    • Articulate Silliman's leftist crirtique. Focus on his multifaceted political analysis.

 

    • Read one of Silliman's attached poems with an eye to everyday scenes.

 

    • Analyze the structure of these poems with respect to grammar, syntax, time sequences, and his simplest materials.

 

    • Find intrincate forms, puns, sounds, statements, which unfold references to Silliman's philosophical concerns.

 

    • Determine Silliman's reflections and questionings on language.

 

    • Give some constitutive factors in Silliman's poems and how they deal with innovative constructs.