<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Just a reminder that we will be meeting today at 3 PM in the Whitney Humanities Center. We will not be meeting in our usual room but in B04, which is in the basement. Come for the poetry, stay for the wine (or vice versa)</div><div><br></div><div>The copies of the book that will be our next session on October 3, Forrest Gander's <i>Core Samples from the World</i> (finalist for the Pulitzer as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award), are now available at our usual room (WHC 116). These are on the shelves opposite the door and close to the windows. As before, I recommend that people not delay in stopping by to get a copy as they do go very quickly. That session will be 3 PM - 5 PM (in WHC 116). On 10/17, Gander himself will join us for a continued discussion of his work. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is a brief description of the book: Pulitzer
citation: "A compelling work that explores cross-cultural tensions in
the world and digs deeply to identify what is essential in human
experience."</div><div id="stacks_out_208_page13" class="stacks_out"><div id="stacks_in_208_page13" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(84, 84, 84);"><br></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forrest Gander’s</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> Core Samples for the World</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
is a magnificent compendium of poetry, photography, and haibun (a
Japanese form of essay-poem). Collaborating with three acclaimed
photographers, Gander considers tensions between the familiar and
foreign. His eloquent new work voices an ethical concern for others,
exploring empathic relations in which the world itself is fundamental.
Taking us around the globe to China, Mexico, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Chile, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Core Samples</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
shows how Gander’s “sharp sense of place has made him the most earthly
of our avant-garde, the best geographer of fleshly sites since Olson”
(Donald Revell, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The Colorado Review)</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(84, 84, 84);"><br></span></div><div id="stacks_in_208_page13" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div id="stacks_in_208_page13" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div id="stacks_in_208_page13" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+++</span><img apple-inline="yes" id="046D6C36-77CC-4D06-845D-0819124FC2CA" height="272" width="182" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:BC87D679-DB75-4D50-A69E-7D533D9CAB42@attlocal.net"><img apple-inline="yes" id="E81CE548-2545-484E-BA96-0BA2490D4F86" height="284" width="290" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8CAF96F9-37ED-4E03-8E58-CD21EEAD48ED@attlocal.net"></div></div><div><br></div><div>The following is Gander's official bio pulled from his very comprehensive website: <a href="http://forrestgander.com/index.html">http://forrestgander.com/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><div id="stacks_out_21_page0" class="stacks_out"><div id="stacks_in_21_page0" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span id="stacks_in_22_page0"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born
in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in
Virginia and spent significant periods in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo
(Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas before moving to Rhode Island.
He holds degrees in both English literature and geology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a href="http://forrestgander.com/page167/As-A-Friend.html" rel="self" title="Forrest Gander, The Trace">The Trace,</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
his second novel--about a stressed couple whose car breaks down in the
middle of the Mexican desert-- will be released in November 2014.<br></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Concerned with the way we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, his book</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> </em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/core-samples.html" rel="external" title="Core Samples">Core Samples from the World</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. <br></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>The author of numerous other books of poetry, including </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/redstart.html" rel="external" title="forrest gander, Redstart">Redstart: An Ecological Poetics </a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/science-and-steepleflower.html" rel="external" title="Science & Steepleflower">Science & Steepleflower</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Gander also writes novels </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/As-A-Friend.html" rel="external" title="As a Friend">(</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/As-A-Friend.html" rel="external" title="As a Friend">As a Friend</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>;</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a href="http://ndbooks.com/book/the-trace" rel="self">The Trace</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">), essays (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/Faithful-Existence.html" rel="external" title="A Faithful Existence">A Faithful Existence</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/Faithful-Existence.html" rel="external" title="A Faithful Existence">)</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and translates. His most recent translations are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a href="http://forrestgander.com/daquino.html" rel="self" title="Forrest Gander Fungus Skull Eye Wing Alfonso D'Aquino">Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a href="http://forrestgander.com/photos/page74.html" rel="self" title="Forrest Gander Watchword pura lopez colome">Watchword </a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(which won the Villaurrutia Prize) by Pura López Colomé;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> </em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/spectacle.html" rel="external" title="Spectacle & Pigsty">Spectacle & Pigsty</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Kiwao Nomura (winner of Best Translated Book Award); and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/firefly.html" rel="external" title="Firefly">Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/firefly.html" rel="external" title="Firefly"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Finalist, PEN Translation Prize). His most recent anthologies are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a href="http://forrestgander.com/zurita-anthology.html" rel="self" title="Forrest Gander Pinholes in the Night">Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin American (selected by Raúl Zurita)</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a href="http://forrestgander.com/panic-cure.html" rel="self" title="Forrest Gander Panic Cure">Panic Cure: Poems from Spain for the 21st Century.</a></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>Gander's
poems appear in many literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, and
have been translated into a dozen languages. His books (see </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a target="_blank" href="http://forrestgander.com/books-and-translations.html" rel="external" title="Books & Translations">Books</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)
in translation are available in France, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Bulgaria,
Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands. He is a United States Artists
Rockefeller Fellow and has received fellowships from The National
Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim, Whiting, and Howard
Foundations. In 2011, he was awarded the Library of Congress Witter
Bynner Fellowship. The Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary
Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander teaches
courses such as Poetry & Ethics, EcoPoetics, Latin American Death
Trip, and Translation Theory & Practice.</span></span></div><div id="stacks_in_21_page0" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div id="stacks_in_21_page0" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+++</span></span></div><div id="stacks_in_21_page0" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div id="stacks_in_21_page0" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See everyone later today,</span></span></div><div id="stacks_in_21_page0" class="stacks_in text_stack"><span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richard Deming, Coordinator</span></span></div></div></div></body></html>