Here is the list for our Summer reading!
Wild Swims, by Dorthe Nors
The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021, by Yusef Komunyakaa
In Memory of Memory, by Maria Stepanova
Walking on Cowrie Shells, by Nana Nkweti
Sea of Tranquility: A novel, by Emily St. John Mandel
Here are links on James Baldwin to get you started for our upcoming discussion:
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? (NY Times, July 29, 1979 by James Baldwin)
Here are links related to our discussions on Emerson:
Stanford Encyclopedia -- Transcendentalism
Stanford Encyclopedia — Ancient Theories of Soul
Concise outline by U Idaho Prof. Nick Gier
A comparison of Platonic and Judeo-Christian concepts (1958 MA Thesis by Lester Newman)
White Shaman Mural (TexasCoopPower)
White Shaman (Discover Magazine)
Nature
The American Scholar
The Transcendentalist
Self Reliance
The Over-Soul
"The Rhodora"
"Brahma"
Experience
Culture
The Fugitive Slave Law
The Emancipation Proclamation
Here is a Sunday Q&A recording and a few additional links related to our reading of Ovid--
Audio recording for our recent Sunday Q&A - 9/20
Two great books on Roman religion:
Scheid, An Introduction to Roman Religion
A novel imagining Ovid's life in exile:
Our first session of the Fall Semester is coming up! These are recommended selections, the "not to be missed" sections that will form the basis for our class discussions of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Prioritize reading the complete books noted below in boldface. If you have time for more reading, read the selected stories from the other books as noted. Of course, read straight through if you have the time and inclination. References are to the new, annotated Rolfe Humphries editions (Indiana UP).
Book One, complete
Book Two, The Story of Phaeton; The Story of Raven; Europa
Book Three, complete
Book Four, The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe; The End of Cadmus; The Story of Perseus
Book Six, complete
Book Seven, The Story of Jason and Medea
Book Eight, The Story of Daedalus and Icarus; The Calydonian Boar; The Story of Baucis and Philemon
Book Nine, The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira; The Story of Hercules' Birth
Book Ten, complete
Book Eleven, The Death of Orpheus; The Story of Midas; The Building of the Walls of Troy; The Story of Thetis
Book Twelve, The Invasion of Troy; Story of the Battle with the Centaurs
Book Thirteen, complete
Book Fourteen, The Deification of Aeneas; Legendary History of Rome; Pomono and Vertumnus
Book Fifteen, complete
Here are a few additional select links and resources for Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise:
Review at NPR
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/750502736/in-an-american-sunrise-joy-harjo-speaks-with-a-timeless-compassion
Review at New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/books/review/an-american-sunrise-poems-joy-harjo.html
Overview and Introduction at the NEA
https://www.arts.gov/national-initiatives/nea-big-read/an-american-sunrise
Stomp Dance at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomp_dance
Mound Builders at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders
Muscogee language lesson