The Poetics of Conversation
Translation, Benjamin Fondane, and The New Babel
Location
On Campus : Dresher Center Conference Room
Date & Time
September 14, 2016, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Description
The Poetics of Conversation: Translation, Benjamin Fondane, and The New Babel
A lecture by
Leonard Schwartz - Evergreen State College
Wednesday, September 14, 4 – 6 p.m.
Dresher Center Conference Room
Performing Arts & Humanities Bldg., Room 216
Leonard Schwartz is the author of many books of poetry and criticism, including A Flicker at the Edge of Things, Language as Responsibility, Gnostic Blessing, The Tower of Diverse Shores, A Message Back and Other Furors, At Element, The Library of Seven Readings, and If. He is also the host of the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics, which features interviews with poets, thinkers, performers, and artists from all over the world.
During his lecture, Professor Schwartz will discuss his two recent publications, The New Babel: Towards A Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (The University of Arkansas Press) and Benjamin Fondane: Cinepoems and Others (New York Review Books).
All are welcome.
Sponsored by the UMBC Dresher Center for the Humanities, English Department & Judaic Studies Program
