[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: to my friends who love literature

[D Charles Whitney]

>  I thought our students and faculty might like to know about this  
> event.
> Thanks very much,
> Susan Straight
>
>
> Note: forwarded message attached.
>
> From: Louise Steinman <swandive at sbcglobal.net>
> Date: October 29, 2008 11:49:57 AM PDT
> To: Erica Clark <erica at artcenter.edu>, Irina <IrinadeB at aol.com>,  
> Barbara Pressman <barbara_pressman at mac.com>, Eloise Klein Healy  
> <eloise_klein_healy at antiochla.edu>
> Cc: Chris Abani <chris.abani at gmail.com>, Leo & Dorothy Braudy  
> <braudy at usc.edu>, Julia Carnahan <JECarnahan at aol.com>, Bernard  
> Cooper <BCooper635 at aol.com>, Maia Danziger <MAIADANZIGER at MAC.COM>
> Subject: to my friends who love literature
>
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> I don't often write personal emails to draw your attention to a  
> particular ALOUD event, but in this case, i can't resist.  On Nov 6  
> (yes just two days after the election) we're presenting an  
> extraordinary program with four internationally known poets sharing  
> the stage to discuss language and literature. Adam Zagajewski  
> happens to be my favorite poet in the world, but they're all going  
> to be amazing. I hope you will spread the word on this program,  
> which is being made possible with the help of Trinity University  
> Press. Reservations still available at www.aloudla.org
>
>
> my best, Louise
>
>
> THU, NOV 06, 7 PM
> Writing the World
> A Conversation with Edward Hirsch,
> Eavan Boland,
> Peter Cole,
> and Adam Zagajewski
> Discussing Hebrew, Polish, Irish, and Mexican writers, four of the  
> world's best known poets examine how local politics, national  
> realities, and cultural traditions affect great literary traditions.
> Co-sponsored by
> Trinity University Press
>
>
>
> Edward Hirsch is internationally acclaimed as a poet and critic.  
> Among his six books of poems are For the Sleepwalkers, which  
> received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy ofAmerican  
> Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New  
> YorkUniversity; Wild Gratitude, which won the National Book Critics  
> Circle Award; and most recently, Lay Back the Darkness. His prose  
> books include Poet's Choice, the national best-seller How to Read a  
> Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry and The Demon and the Angel:  
> Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration.
> Among his many honors are fellowships from the Guggenheim and  
> MacArthur foundations, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers'  
> Award. Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon  
> Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
>
> Eavan Boland has published eight volumes of poetry, including  
> Against Love Poetry, In a Time of Violence,and An Origin Like  
> Water. She is the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in  
> the Humanities and the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the  
> Creative Writing Program at StanfordUniversity. Boland is the  
> winner of the Lannan Award for Poetry and lives in Dublin and  
> Stanford, California.
>
> Adam Zagajewski's books of poetry in English include Mysticism for  
> Beginners, Tremor, and Without End. He is also the author of a  
> memoir, Another Beauty, and the prose collections Two Cities and  
> Solitude and Solidarity. Among his honors and awards are a  
> fellowship from the Berliner Künstlerprogramm, the Kurt Tucholsky  
> Prize, a Prix de la Liberté, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the  
> Neustadt Literary Prize. He is professor of literature at the  
> Universityof Chicago. He lives in Krakow, Poland and Chicago.
>
>
> Peter Cole's most recent book of poems is Things on Which I've  
> Stumbled. His many volumes of translations include The Dream of the  
> Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 1950–1492;  
> J'Accuse, by Aharon Shabtai; and So What: New and Selected Poems,  
> 1971–2005, by Taha Muhammad Ali. Cole is the recipient of the PEN  
> Translation Prize for Poetry and fellowships from the National  
> Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities,  
> and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was named a  
> MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2007. He lives in Jerusalem.
>
>
>
>
> TRY TO PRAISE THE MUTILATED WORLD
>
>
>
> Try to praise the mutilated world.
>
> Remember June’s long days,
>
> and wild strawberries, drops of rose wine.
>
> The nettles that methodically overgrow
>
> the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
>
> You must praise the mutilated world.
>
> You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
>
> one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
>
> while salty oblivion awaited others.
>
> You’ve seen the refugees going nowhere,
>
> you’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully.
>
> You should praise the mutilated world.
>
> Remember the moments when we were together
>
> in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
>
> Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
>
> You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
>
> and leaves eddied over the earth’s scars.
>
> Praise the mutilated world
>
> and the gray feather a thrush lost,
>
> and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
>
> and returns.
>
>
>
>
>
> - Adam Zagajewski
>
>

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