<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;"><div>Dear Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>this is just a note to remind you all that we will be meeting this Friday from 3 PM - 5 PM in room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center. The focus of this session will be Forrest Gander's Core Samples of the World, which combines poetry, prose, and photography, drawing on the Japanese tradition of the Haibun, The copies that we put out last week are all distributed at this point.</div><div><br></div><div>Then Gander himself will join us on Oct 17th at 3 PM - 5 PM to continue our warm and open discuss of this fascinating work. </div><div><br></div><div>All best,</div><div>Richard Deming, Co-coordinator </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img apple-inline="yes" id="47148715-D8BE-4E14-82A9-3BCFFF83EC71" height="293" width="448" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9205D7F0-27FF-4603-B8D4-E09D8E96AED7@its.yale.internal"></div><div><br></div><div><p><em><strong>�Forrest Gander is a Southern poet of a relatively hard
kind, a restlessly experimental writer�.Be ready for a ride.�-Robert
Hass</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>�In the hands of the lyrical, insightful Forrest Gander,
words express unspeakable secrets, they trace hidden connections between
friends and lovers, and they make us aware of the expansive power of
the imagination.� -Joanna Scott</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>�What really haunts Gander, who is a translator as well
as a poet, isn�t so much death as the complexities of life: the
frequently unknown stories that lie beneath and within the stories we
tell.� -Washington Post</strong></em></p><p>With an �unflinchingly curious mind,� celebrated poet Forrest Gander
has become known for the richness of his language and his undaunted
lyric passion. A translator, essayist, and the editor of two anthologies
of Mexican poetry, Gander is the author of more than a dozen books,
including collaborations with notable artists and photographers. His
2011 poetry collection <em>Core Samples from the World</em> (New
Directions)-a collaboration with the photographers Graciela Iturbide,
Raymond Meeks, and Lucas Foglia-was a finalist for both the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books
include his gemlike first novel<em> As A Friend</em> (2008) and <em>The Trace</em> (2014); the poetry collections <em>Eye Against Eye</em> (with photographs by Sally Mann); <em>Torn Awake; Science & Steepleflower;</em> and the essay collection<em> Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory & Transcendence</em>.</p><p>Gander�s translations include <em>Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D�Aquino</em> (Copper Canyon, 2014), longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation;<em> Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America</em>, translated with <a href="http://blueflowerarts.com/?p=1256" target="_blank">Ra�l Zurita</a>; <em>Watchword</em>, the Villaurrutia Award-winning book by Mexican Poet Laureate Pura Lopez Colome (Wesleyan, 2012);<em> Spectacle & Pigsty</em>,
a co-translation with Kyoko Yoshida of selected poems by contemporary
Japanese poet Kiwao Nomura (OmniDawn Press, 2011), which won the Best
Translated Book Award for 2012; <em>Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho</em> (2008), which was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize; and, with Kent Johnson,<em> The Night</em> by Jaime Saenz. Gander�s essays have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Review, and American Poetry Review, among others.</p><p>In 2008, Gander was named a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow,
one of 50 artists to be recognized for artistic excellence, unique
artistic vision, and significant contributions to their fields. Gander
is also the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Guggenheim, Howard, and Whiting Foundations; and he has
received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry.</p><p>With poet<a href="http://blueflowerarts.com/?p=1252" target="_blank"> C.D. Wright</a>,
Gander lives in Rhode Island, where he is professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Brown University. He teaches courses on
phenomenology and poetics, Asian-American literature, and translation.</p></div></body></html>