LANDSCAPE ARTISTS
Marianne Moore said that poems should be “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” In this course, we will consider how a landscape can develop and reveal character, and even become a character itself. Our travel itinerary will include Wyoming ranchland, Chilean mines, the Isle of Skye, the Appalachian Trail, a pirate ship, Mars, and the underworld.
Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Paul Bowles, A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Also read:
Ernest Hermingway, “Big Two-Hearted River”
Italo Calvino, “The Argentine Ant”
Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry
