- •Unit one
- •I will teach you in my verse
- •I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
- •Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
- •Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
- •Is a paling stout and spiky?
- •It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
- •Islington and Isle of Wight,
- •I like them all!
- •Unit two
- •I'm Joe Linn, I come from San Francisco. I'm leaving for Peking.
- •I'm going to learn Chinese. I know some words already
- •I hope you like Peking.
- •Unit three
- •It’s cuz we're concentrating
- •Is reality’s accordion. Unexpectedly
- •I thought this was
- •I took drama
- •Into my own hands and alongside
- •I told you not to do it and you did it again!
- •Unit four
- •Violently engaged. But it was the artists
- •I looked left toward the little bridge,
- •Incredibly enough, being led
- •In servizio sulla Linea Mediterraneo - Nord America sailing 1968
- •Unit five
- •It was “about breeding.”. Breeding yes, I flashed the thought of all the deaths
- •In the birdcage
- •In the face of “what counts
- •It’s pennies”. In o-eight
- •Unit six
- •In the feminist fable
- •Into activist or choose to manifest
- •In smokey loops
- •Unit seven
- •Is That Why They Call Them Flower Children?
- •In a high school senior play, shouting
- •In broken English and rapid Greek about tanks
- •Into citizens, just now, in the streets of Prague.
- •I was running
- •In the gutters
- •I still see blue sky and sea under sun and wind
- •Is a little dock, still a black rock beach, footprints
- •Unit eight
- •In search of Athena and Apollo’s
- •In different, steaming jungles in Vietnam.
- •Unit nine
- •Voice spilling. He will not
- •Voices soften thick air and as they sing every
- •If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
- •Unit ten
- •In rural Turkey?
- •I feel sure that was the afternoon
- •Unit eleven
- •In Athens the Greek music
- •I squint myself into your eight and ten year old eyes to conger
- •Into a monster. Other answers are better buried.
- •Sideducking Your Question
- •Family Game
- •Irresistible
- •Is a room whose boundaries invite me to compose
- •Is a room
- •Answering Machine
- •Into the room where only
- •The Business of a Clean Sweep
- •The Night House
- •Into half truths. Simply an issue of light.
- •In her house in the middle
- •University Weather
- •Clinic Wait
- •Is in an exam.
- •The Baroness of Ballard
- •In hers. He says
- •Is dying but she is hanging-on.
- •Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden in Germany
- •I forget where we were headed but it rained.
- •It was dark, a musty smell and the guide’s voice
- •Passages in the Bad-Hotel Zum Hirsh
- •Milltown Maltbay, Cookery School
- •Fourth Day at the Literary Seminar
- •In pink overstuffed
- •You Hated to Practice
- •Our Teacher Says Music is Her Mission
- •In a room that is the color of ice. First Rehearsal of the Opera, "Andrea Chénier"
- •Emanuel Ax, Hunger & Taste
- •Barometric Pressure
- •Its little ledges of blue slow motion
- •Inflaming the cheek after the slap.
- •The Question of the Color of the Walls
- •In splats of blistering gold & refresh ourselves in grapefruit.
- •Eau de California
- •The Perfumer
- •Afterimage of the Bird of Passage
- •The Most Important Thing to Save When the House is Burning Down
- •I needed that.
I was running
two women
wearing bandanas
tore by
gasping told
how students
were ripping
paving stones with
their fingers
from streets,
pushing over cars
for barricades, behind
us police
pumping
more tear gas into
the workers and bystanders
like me. Human
chains shifting rocks
hand to hand, anything
became a weapon, wood,
and iron. Some
still in pajamas
“ Emily Relishes Her Tale Of the Civilized Parisians”
their sticky blood
In the gutters
of Boulevard St Germaine,.
later called it Bloody Monday.
Emily stops her
story, moves a strand
of hair from her cheek,
praises the delicate
wings of white
hanky parachutes
on the breeze
“so we could breathe”
she says softly
almost smiling.
Exercise 4. Discuss the poem with your group mate. Remember that you are not in competition with anyone, and that you will progress at your own rate.
Exercise 5. Read and transcribe the tongue-twisters. Consult the dictionary to check the correctness. Pronounce every sound with distinctness. Write down the unknown words into your dictionary. Use them in sentences of your own:
An ugly duck was in a funny cup.
Unic New-York.
On a sunny Sunday.
Exercise 6. Listen and decode a poem by Denise Levertov from the audio collection. Transcribe and translate the text. Read it over and over. Use the unknown words in sentences of your own.
Exercise 7. Discuss the poem with your group mate. Write down your dialogue. Read it with distinctness. Work for precision with a minimum of tension. After you have accurately mastered the phrases for clarity, work for speed in repetition.
Exercise 8. Imagine you and your friend are at the exhibition of drawings. Make up a dialogue. Speak on the drawing of Althea Hucari. Repeat the following “jawbreakers” for clarity of articulation: inexplicable, unpredictable, unbelievable, antediluvian, inexpressible. Add the list.
Exercise 9. Read, translate, transcribe the following text. Repeat for clarity of articulation:
Copy-cat
Oh, I like to sleep till noontime every day.
Oh, she likes to sleep till noontime every day.
Every time I sleep till noontime, she sleeps till noontime.
Oh, she likes to do what I do every day.
Oh, I like to take a shower every day.
Oh, she likes to take a shower every day.
Every time I take a shower, she takes a shower.
Oh, she likes to do what I do every day.
Oh, I like to study English every day.
Oh, she likes to study English every day.
Every time I study English, she studies.
Oh, she likes to do what I do every day.
Exercise 10. Speak on the phrase “copy-cat”. Paraphrase or say how you understand it. Describe a person that can be called a copy-cat. Give Russian equivalents for the phrase. Use more adjectives to characterize the “copy-cat”.
Exercise 11. Read, translate and transcribe following poem by Carol Levin. Repeat the new words over and over. Accuracy first, the speed!
Souvenir Shards
Memory flutters like heatwaves above asphalt
and it’s futile to interrogate memory. I distrust
memory.
Remember
Chios ages ago? An island in Greece
wavering seven sea miles
from the grimy village of Cesme, Turkey.