Syllabus (draft)

Epigrams and Invisible Translations
Zábrana, Jan. Básník, který neodešel. Potkat básníka 205–219.
Poems: from Utkvělé černé ikony: Když čtu Ginsberga; from Stránky z deníku Marnost, Třicet, Zde by měly kvést…, Sentimentální cesta, Zkrat, Černá ranní vzpomínka, Holubi
Ginsberg, Allen. trans. JZ. Kvílení, Ameriko

Czech Ambassador to Harvard
Selection from Milada Součková, Sešity Josefíny Rykrové
Hrdlička, Josef. The Case of Milada Součková’s Poetry. from Poetry in Exile: Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition, trans. Václav Z. J. Pinkava

From Jirny and Back
Templeton, Edith. “A Coffeehouse Acquaintance” and “Irresistibly” from The Darts of Cupid.
Nagy, Ladislav. “Magická Praha a okupované Čechy slouží často v anglicky psaných románech jako literární kýč.” DeníkN, May 18, 2019

Madly, Macaronically
Poems: selection from Ivan Blatný, The Drug of Art: Selected Poems, ed. Veronika Tuckerová.

The Other Europe
Philip Roth, The Prague Orgy

The New Czech Americans
Malcolm, Janet. Six Glimpses of the Past, New Yorker Oct. 29, 2018
Slouka, Mark. from The Visible World, The New World 1–6

Transatlantic Brotherhood
Ginsberg, Allen. Kral Majales
Quinn, Justin. “Arrival in English,” ch. 3 Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry

Porcelain of Široká
Chatwin, Bruce. Utz

1968, Jan Palach
selections: From a Terrace in Prague, ed Stephan Delbos
Holub, Miroslav. The Prague of Jan Palach
David Shapiro, The Funeral of Jan Palach, Christ in Prague
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. Russian Tanks in Prague
Lowell, Robert. From Prague 1968
Other: Zábrana, Jan. Demons

No suffix, no hook
Prikryl, Jana. selections from The After Party and No Matter
Prikryl, Jana. Memory Mosaic, https://www.taddlecreekmag.com/memory-mosaic

Ghosts of Ghosts of Ghosts
Dybek, Stuart. “Pet Milk.” New Yorker, Aug. 13, 1984. Or listen to it as a podcast.
Read about Stuart Dybek’s house in the neighborhood of Pilsen in Chicago.