<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All--<div><br></div><div>this is just a reminder that we will be meeting <b>this Friday from 3-5</b> in our usual room, 116 in the Whitney Humanities Center. The focus of our discussion will be <i>Transcendental Studies</i> by Keith Waldrop, which recently was awarded the National Book Award.</div><div><br></div><div>Our discussion will be guided by Olivier Brossard, <span lang="EN-GB">associate professor at the </span><span lang="EN-GB">University</span><span lang="EN-GB"> of </span><span lang="EN-GB">Paris Est</span><span lang="EN-GB"> (Marne-La-Vallée). Professor Brossard is an esteemed scholar of the New York School of Poetry, and a talented and accomplished translator of American poetry into French. He will provide a strong context for reading Waldrop's work and will offer insights that he's gained from being so deeply invested in Waldrop's work as a translator and scholar.</span></div><div>For a series of links and resources that I have emailed prior to this, please go here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/wgcp-whc/2009-November/000233.html">http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/wgcp-whc/2009-November/000233.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also go here for a sample of Waldrop reading from his work.</div><div><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/weekly-poems-keith-waldrop-2009-national-book-award-winner.html">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/weekly-poems-keith-waldrop-2009-national-book-award-winner.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>If anyone is still looking for a copy of <i>Transcendental Studies</i>, there is one copy available at Labyrinth Books. This session will be our last of the semester, but when we resume again at the end of January our first session of the new semester will feature a visit from Waldrop himself.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As ever, our sessions are open and welcoming to all, so do spread the world to any interested parties. </div><div>There will be wine. </div><div>There may be cookies.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Until Friday,</div><div>Richard Deming, Co-conspirator</div></body></html>