Units: 4
Hours: Seminar, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; outside research, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour
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Prerequisites: graduate standing
Description: Examines the poet- ry of crises and witness written by poets in the twenti- eth and twenty-first centuries from America and around the world. Topics may include war; genocide; religious, ethnic, and political persecution; exile; imprisonment; ecological degradation; and domestic and urban violence in the United States.