Poetics: Poetry's Nature

We could consider all poetry as "nature poetry" in that poems have a relation, beyond aesthesis alone, to the boundary between the phenomenal and the noumenal. In this course, we think about nature not only as a theme in poetry, but as well as a force in its practice. We take up such issues as the non-semantic and counter-logical, theories of rhythm, representations of the invisible, the temporal, the causal, and the sociology of genres.