Some writers teach us, simply by their pacing, to slow down. We trace this in five short essays and three long ones. The course is small and the work is collaborative.
Optional: bring a thing you've been ignoring.
Course Nº VIII · Literature
A Poetics of Attention
How writers train themselves — and you — to look at a thing twice.
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Table of contents
Twelve lessons, in order.
8 lessons
- 01
A second look 1
Plate I — a demonstration.
- 02
A second look 2
Plate II — a demonstration.
- 03
A second look 3
Plate III — a demonstration.
- 04
A second look 4
Plate IV — a demonstration.
- 05
A second look 5
Plate V — a demonstration.
- 06
A second look 6
Plate VI — a demonstration.
- 07
A second look 7
Plate VII — a demonstration.
- 08
A second look 8
Plate VIII — a demonstration.
Outcomes
- 01Identify a writer's strategies for forcing a second look
- 02Practise those strategies in your own short prose
- 03Write a paragraph that earns its slow pace
Begin reading
Enroll, and walk into the room.