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</font><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2>AWARD WINNING POET ALFRED
CORN READS AT CCSU<br>
Thursday, April 14th, 2005 <br>
5:00 pm <br>
in the Marcus White Living Room on the campus of CCSU, New Britain, CT
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Free and Open to the Public <br>
contact:
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“By turns mandarin and earthy, intricate and bold, Autobiographies is
both an exploration of our variegated national culture and a significant
contribution to it. Sinuous and supple, his verse twines around our
nomadic unease, rooting us in a poet’s imagination. Alfred Corn is a
national resource, a bard of astonishing breadth.”<br>
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.<br>
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“For nearly three decades, Corn’s intelligence, command of craft, and
extraordinary ear have shaped an impressive body of poems, and with
Stake’s generous selection from the first twenty years, this reflective
richly textured workcerebral, playful, elegiac, and compassionateshows
itself to singular advantage. … Alfred Corn has kept a true course
throughout his distinguished career: in poems elegant and inventive, he
shows us a world it is a pleasure to revisit.” <br>
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Ned Balbo, Antioch Review<br>
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Alfred Corn is the author of nine books of poems, including Stake:
Selected Poems, 1972-1992, which appeared in 1999, and a new collection
of poems, titled Contradictions, which appeared with Copper Canyon Press
in 2002. He has also published a novel, Part of His Story, and a
collection of critical essays titled The Metamorphoses of Metaphor.
He has received Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, an Award in Literature
from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a fellowship from the
Academy of American Poets, and the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine.
For many years he taught in the Graduate Writing Program of the School of
the Arts at Columbia and has held visiting posts at UCLA, the University
of Cincinnati, Ohio State University, Sarah Lawrence, Yale, and the
University of Tulsa. A frequent contributor to The New York Times
Book Review and The Nation, he also writes art criticism for Art in
America and ARTnews magazines. In 2001 Abrams published Aaron Rose
Photographs, for which he supplied the introduction. In October 2003 he
was a fellow of the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center at Bellagio,
and for 2004-2005, he holds the Amy Clampitt residency in Lenox,
Massachusetts.<br>
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Ravi Shankar <br>
Poet-in-Residence <br>
Assistant Professor <br>
CCSU - English Dept. <br>
860-832-2766 <br>
shankarr@ccsu.edu </font></blockquote>
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