Dean Bakopoulos: Let Us Consider the Kitchen: The User’s Guide to Lists, Maps, and Inventories (January 2014)

Bakopoulos’s discussion class examines the uses of lists and litanies in poetry and prose as a way to heighten momentum and illuminate syntax. Among the texts discussed are William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow and works by Tillie Olsen, Susan Minot, and Stuart Dybek.