My sister is a professor at a college in upstate New York. She teaches English, rhetoric and gender studies. I received the following message from her last night:
I need a good Bukowski book for fall (I have to submit my book list in two weeks). The class is Language and Gender and I want to work with specific, gendered poetry (not necessarily the writing style but the themes of the poetry. He is about as masculine as I can imagine. I am countering it with a Gertrude Stein book about domesticity.) So I need you to think about this. Of all of Bukowski's books, which one do you think would be a good book for an undergraduate 200-level writing course (mostly juniors and seniors)? Any length, as I can pick and choose which poems for analysis and discussion.
What do you think? I've always thought that MOCKINGBIRD was his golden era. Or, perhaps she should abandon poetry and go with WOMEN?
Thanks, in advance, for your input.
I need a good Bukowski book for fall (I have to submit my book list in two weeks). The class is Language and Gender and I want to work with specific, gendered poetry (not necessarily the writing style but the themes of the poetry. He is about as masculine as I can imagine. I am countering it with a Gertrude Stein book about domesticity.) So I need you to think about this. Of all of Bukowski's books, which one do you think would be a good book for an undergraduate 200-level writing course (mostly juniors and seniors)? Any length, as I can pick and choose which poems for analysis and discussion.
What do you think? I've always thought that MOCKINGBIRD was his golden era. Or, perhaps she should abandon poetry and go with WOMEN?
Thanks, in advance, for your input.
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