<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>If you didn't get one already, a new batch of copies of Charles Bernstein's Recalculating is available in Room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center. Get them while they last! And we'll be meeting at # PM -5PM in that room on Friday Feb 14 to discuss that work. Bernstein will then be joining our conversation in person on feb 28th . I'll attach a review of the book by Jed Rasula to this email.</div><div><br></div><div>And below I send word of an upcoming event that should be of interest to members of this group.</div><div><br></div><div>All yours,</div><div>Richard Deming, Group Coordinator</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="title" id="page-title">Maggie Nelson Reads from "Bluets"</h1>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date-time field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-02-06T16:00:00-05:00">Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 4:00pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-location field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library<br>121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511<br>(Location is wheelchair accessible.)</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Join us on Thursday, Feb. 6 as poet and creative nonfiction writer Maggie Nelson reads from <em>Bluets – </em>her
lyrical and philosophical exploration of personal suffering and the
limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue.</p><p>This
reading is in conjunction with the exhibition, Blue: Color and Concept,
on view at the Beinecke Library from Jan. 18 through April 19, 2014. It
is part of the Yale Collection of Amerian Literature reading series.</p><p>Nelson’s most recent book, <em>The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning</em> (2011), was featured on the front cover of the Sunday<em> Book Review</em> of <em>The</em> <em>New York Times</em>, as well as named a <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book of the Year. Her other nonfiction books include a critical study of poetry and painting titled <em>Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions</em> (2007); and an autobiographical book about sexual violence and media spectacle titled <em>The Red Parts: A Memoir</em> (2007). Her poetry books include <em>Something Bright, Then Holes</em> (2007), <em>Jane: A Murder</em> (2005), <em>The Latest Winter</em> (2003), and <em>Shiner </em>(2001).</p><p>She
has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, an NEA
Fellowship in Poetry, and an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital
Arts Writers Grant. She currently teaches in the School of Critical
Studies at CalArts.</p><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>