Syllabus

Syllabus

There is something in walking that stimulates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think at all if I stay still. My body has to be on the move to set my mind going. –Rousseau

…breaking a path through a terrain and leaving a trace, at once in the imagination and on the ground –Tim Ingold

WEEK 1

On Writing, On Walking

• AR Ammons, A Poem is a Walk: http://templepoetry.blogspot.com/2009/06/poem-is-walk.html
• Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes: http://www.mrbauld.com/frostfig.html
• Rebecca Solnit, from Wanderlust: http://www.dailygood.org/pdf/ij.php?tid=950
• Adam Gopnik, Heaven’s Gaits:  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/heavens-gaits
• Ferris Jabr, Why Walking Helps Us Think:  http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think
• David Macauley: A Few Notes on Walking: http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/403/650
• Interview w/Cole Swenson: http://therumpus.net/2016/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-cole-swensen/
• Edward Abbey, Walking: http://willnixon.com/insights/abbey-walkin
• Bruce Chatwin, It’s a Nomad Nomad World chatwin-macfarlane-amato
• Joseph Amato, Walking is Talking  chatwin-macfarlane-amato
• Robert Macfarlane, from The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot chatwin-macfarlane-amato

Medieval Pilgrims

• Geoffrey Chaucer, prologue to The Canterbury Tales (1386)

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WEEK 2

Nature Walks

Nonfiction

• Henry David Thoreau, *Walking: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=YmlkZGVmb3JkdGlnZXJzLm9yZ3xiaHNtaW56eXxneDoyYmMxYWM3YzRlYjQ4YWJk [optional: A Winter Walk: http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/thoreau/winterwalk.html]
• John Muir, A Wind-Storm in the Forests: http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_mountains_of_california/chapter_10.aspx
• Edward Hirsch, *Walking with His Muse…: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703573.html
• Linda Hogan, Walking: http://www.risd.k12.nm.us/assessment_evaluation/improvsbascores/SBA%20Reading/Walking1.pdf
• Annie Dillard, Seeing: http://dcrit.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/1974/01/Seeing.pdf
  

Poetry

• William Wordsworth, *I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45521; Stepping Westward: http://www.poetrycat.com/william-wordsworth/stepping-westward
• John Keats, To Autumn: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/44484
• Gerald Manley Hopkins, *Hurrahing in Harvest:  http://www.bartleby.com/122/14.html
• Emily Dickinson, I Started Early — Took My Dog: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/50976
• Robert Frost, *The Wood-Pile: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44276; *Directive: http://www.thehypertexts.com/Robert%20Frost%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio.htm: A Late Walk: http://www.bartleby.com/117/5.html; Good Hours: http://www.poemtree.com/poems/GoodHours.htm
• Ezra Pound, Provincia Deserta: http://www.bartleby.com/300/400.html
• Theodore Roethke, The Waking: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43333
• Dylan Thomas, Poem in October: http://www.bigeye.com/october.htm
• Elizabeth Bishop, *The End of March: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-end-of-march/; *Chemin de Fer: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chemin-de-fer/
• Robert Penn Warren, Sunset Walk in Thaw-Time in Vermont (handout)
• AR Ammons, *Corsons Inlet: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43073
• Brenda Hillman, *Poem For a National Seashore: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/poem-national-seashore
• Franz Wright, *One Heart: https://books.google.com/books?id=d1b55mORx-QC&pg=PT10&lpg=PT10&dq=franz+wright+one+heart&source=bl&ots=BHXhRS2iX1&sig=HkwZwlBONBy4vE9I4DlrjwZNUIk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGkorwq73RAhUH1RQKHdf1BDQ4ChDoAQg3MAY#v=onepage&q=franz%20wright%20one%20heart&f=false
• Robert Hass, *The Apple Trees at Olema: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/apple-trees-olema; *On Squaw Peak: http://pagestopixels.com/?p=2534
• WS Merwin, The Way to the River: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43116
• Fanny Howe, *Everything’s a Fake: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46762
• Sylvia Plath, Berck-Plage: http://www.sylviaplath.de/plath/berckplage.html
• William Matthews, *A Walk: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-walk-12/
• John Logan, *Big Sur: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=109&issue=6&page=38
• Galway Kinnell, *The Seekonk Woods: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42681
• Mark Strand, *Keeping Things Whole: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47541; *Taking a Walk With You: http://poem-a-day.tumblr.com/post/4047970310/taking-a-walk-with-you-mark-strand
• Stephen Dunn, *Walking the Marshland:  http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/stephen_dunn/poems/14915
• Charles Reznikoff, Walking and Watching: http://poetrynook.com/poem/walking-and-watching
• Edward Hirsch, *I’m Going to Start Living Like a Mystic: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/im-going-start-living-mystic
• Gary Snyder, *Above Pate Valley: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47179; A Walk: http://wenaus.com/poetry/gs-awalk.html
• James Wright, Late November in a Field:  https://mercuryonthemove.com/2009/11/28/late-november-in-a-field-by-james-wright/
• Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North:  https://minookatap.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north.pdf

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WEEK 3

Urban Walkers

Nonfiction

• Michel de Certeau, Walking in the City: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/berlin/pdf/scholarship/De%20Certeau_Walking.pdf
• Rebecca Solnit, from Wanderlust:  https://pcl2009.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/solnita1.pdf
• Philip Lopate, On the Aesthetics of Urban Walking and Writing: http://mrbellersneighborhood.com/2004/03/on-the-aesthetics-of-urban-walking-and-writing
• Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting: A London Adventure: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chapter5.html
• Charles Dickens, Night Walks: http://www.cmadras.com/136/136b1.pdf

Poetry

• William Blake, *London: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43673
• William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge:  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45514
• Charles Baudelaire, selections from The Parisien Prowler (handout)
• Walt Whitman, *Song of the Open Road: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48859
• TS Eliot, *Preludes: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44214
• Claude McKay, *Harlem Shadows: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44693
• WH Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-walked-out-one-evening
• Wallace Stevens, An Ordinary Evening in New Haven (handout)
• Frank O’Hara, *Lunch Poems (text)
• Pablo Neruda, *Walking Around: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/walking-around
• Allen Ginsberg, *A Supermarket in California: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47660
• Ron Padgett, Strawberries in Mexico: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57239
• James Merrill, *An Urban Convalescence: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/smonte10/files/2010/08/Urban-Convalescence1.pdf
• Adrienne Rich, *A Walk by the Charles: http://www.voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=1&poet=36&poem=2556; *Upper Broadway: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/adrienne-rich-1929-2012-blog-entry-1.1637988
• Mark Doty, Broadway: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/broadway
• Marie Howe, *After the Movie: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/after-movie
• Larry Levis, *The Oldest Living Thing in LA: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47947
• Philip Levine, A Walk with Thomas Jefferson: http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/2637/a-walk-with-tom-jefferson-philip-levine
• Grace Paley, *On Mother’s Day: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48319
• Yusef Komunyakaa, *Urban Renewal: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47929
• Nikki Giovanni, Walking Down Park: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48225
• Charles Reznikoff, *Autobiography: New York: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51548
• Cole Swenson, Gerard de Nerval: http://www.kenyonreview.org/journal/novdec-2015/selections/cole-swenson/; INTERVIEW:  http://www.kenyonreview.org/conversation/cole-swensen/

Film

• John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy 

Event

• BreadLoaf walk with Bill McKibben, Wednesday, January 25th @ 1:15pm (meet at Rikert Nordic Center)

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WEEK 4

Other Walks

• Rilke, *A Walk (Trans. Bly): https://allpoetry.com/A-Walk
• Gwendolyn Brooks, *a song in the front yard: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43310
• Langston Hughes, *Bound No’th Blues: http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/langston-hughes/bound-no-th-blues/
• Richard Wilbur, *Walking to Sleep: http://dornsife.usc.edu/labyrinth/dreamwaves/archiveInterface/archive/dreambook2/2-2.pdf
• Linda Hogan, *Walking With My Father: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57880
• Elizabeth Bradfield, *Multi-Use Area: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/06/the-owls-multiuse-area-by-elizabeth-bradfield.html
• Robert Creeley, *Kore: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/kore
• CK Williams, The Singing: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/c__k__williams/poems/22281
• Peter Gizzi, *Lessons in Darkness: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/58107; Hypostasis & New Year: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/55315; A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me: http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/24453/auto/0/0/Peter-Gizzi/A-PANIC-THAT-CAN-STILL-COME-UPON-ME
• Louise Gluck, Walking at Night: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/09/30
• Li Young Lee, Eating Alone: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/eating-alone
• Denise Levertov, Stepping Westward: http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/denise-levertov/stepping-westward/; A Walk Through the Notebooks
• Edward Hirsch, For the Sleepwalkers: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-the-sleepwalkers/
• Kenneth Koch, *Taking a Walk With You: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20587859?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• John Ashbery, *Just Walking Around: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/just-walking-around; *Grand Galop: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=124&issue=1&page=5; *The Thief of Poetry: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25303479?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• Cole Swenson, *Walk:  http://www.essaypress.org/ep-36/

Film

• Bennett Miller, The Cruise 

Event

• TAM walk with John Elder, Thursday @ 10-1 (meet at CFA)

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