This class will focus on poetry of endings and beginning, not only of social (or global?) scope but of personal scope as well. Such poetry acts as angel or emissary, ushering us from one reality to another, one door closing, another opening. We will study poems by James Merrill, Jorie Graham, W. H. Auden, William Shakespeare, Frank O’Hara, Yehuda Amichai, Langston Hughes, and others.

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