Topic 5:

Christopher Logue: War Music

The Verse-Novel:
Contemporary Epic & Narrative Poems

Themes:
1. The Bourgeois Epic
   Primary Text:
   • Michael Ondaatje: from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970)
   Critical Text:
   • Kathy Acker “The Invisible Universe” (1982)


2. Story-telling & Mosaic
   Primary Texts:
   • Leicester Kyle: from Heteropholis (1998)
   • Lynn Jenner: from Dear Sweet Harry (2010)

Author Pages:

1. Kathy Acker (1947-1997)


2. Lynn Jenner (1955- )


3. Leicester Kyle (1937-2006)


4. Michael Ondaatje (1943- )

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Susan Howe: Souls of the Labadie Tract (2007)

The Bourgeois Epic

Anthology Readings [pp.63-88]:

• Michael Ondaatje: from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970)
• Kathy Acker “The Invisible Universe” (1982)

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[Michele Leggott: Mirabile Dictu (2009)]

Story-telling & Mosaic

Anthology Readings [pp.89-106]:

• Leicester Kyle: from Heteropholis (1998)
• Lynn Jenner: from Dear Sweet Harry (2010)

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