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First class: Oct. 25
read up on the Greek story of Pandora's Box
Sections of Always Coming Home to read (use table of contents):
A First Note
Towards an Archaeology of the Future
The Serpentine Codex
Chart of the Nine Houses
Pandora Worries About What She is Doing: The Pattern
Some Stories Told Aloud: Some Stories..., The Keeper
Poems, First Section
How to Die in the Valley
Pandora Sitting By the Creek
Second Class: Oct. 30
Pandora Worrying About What She is Doing: She Addresses the Reader with Agitation
Time and the City: The City, A Hole in the Air, Time in the Valley
Pandora, Worrying About What She is Doing, Finds a Way into the Valley Through the Scrub Oak
Some Brief Valley Texts
Pandora Converses with the Archivist of the Library...
Pandora Gently to the Gentle Reader
Poems, Fourth Section
Third Class: Nov. 1
The Back of the Book
Long Names of Houses
Some Generative Metaphors
Living on the Coast, Energy, and Dancing
The Modes of Earth and Sky
A Note and a Chart Concerning Narrative Modes
Spoken and Written Literature
Pandora No Longer Worrying
Glossary: browse
also: check out the maps, interspersed throughout the text and listed together at the end of the table of contents
Fourth Class: Nov. 6
students prepare their own reading selections from Always Coming Home
students write 1-2 of their own “entries” for additional items describing Valley society: we will read aloud selected ones in class and discuss
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