• STUDENT ACCOUNTS
  • STUDENT ACCESS
  • FACULTY ACCESS
  • 0Shopping Cart
MFA Program for Writers | Warren Wilson
  • OUR PROGRAM
    • Program Overview
    • Residency
    • Tuition and Fees
    • FAQs
  • FACULTY
    • Current Faculty
    • Active Faculty
    • Past Faculty
  • ALUMNI
    • Alumni Information & Bibliography
    • Post-Graduate Semester
    • Fellowships and Stipends
    • Request a Transcript
  • NEWS
  • APPLY
  • CONTACT
  • SHOP THE MFA STORE
    • Audio recordings: Residency lectures
    • Books: Faculty anthologies
    • Videos: Craft and the Writing Life series
    • Collections
  • Search
  • Menu Menu

Ira Sadoff: Modernism, Writing Workshops, and the Myth of Closure (July 1995)

$5.00

Our writing workshops, Ira Sadoff argues, are still “weighed down by the discourse of Modernism,” including the idea that a poem must close with unity and transcendence.  Who, Sadoff asks, created this idea of “unity,” and what does it exclude?  Can we ignore that these ideas originated in a White, male tradition?  Sadoff draws on work by Wallace Stevens, James Wright, Gerald Stern, John Ashbery, Lynn Hejinian and others to consider these questions and offer a different way of evaluating a poem’s closure. 

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Poetry
  • Additional information

Additional information

Residency

1995 – July

Faculty Member

Sadoff, Ira

Related products

  • Linda Gregerson: Poetic Embodiment (January 2005)

    $5.00
  • Stephen Dobyns: Tone (January 1994)

    $5.00
  • Chris Forhan: What Happens When I Say “I” (July 2002)

    $5.00
  • Margot Livesey: The Hidden Machinery (January 1999)

    $5.00

The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College

701 Warren Wilson Rd. Swannanoa, NC 28778
[email protected]     (828) 771-3715

STUDENT ACCOUNTS      STUDENT ACCESS      FACULTY ACCESS

© 2023 MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson :: Website by Integritive Web Design :: Asheville, NC
James Longenbach: The Excess of Poetry (July 2010)Heather McHugh: The Stuff of Language as Packed by Wallace Stevens (July 20...
Scroll to top