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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'> <b><i>Louise
Glück </i></b>and <b><i>Henri Cole <br>
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</i></b>Monday, September 29, 2008 6 p.m.<br>
St. Anthony Hall, 483 College Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Yale faculty and distinguished poets <b><i>Louise Glück </i></b>and
<b><i>Henri Cole </i></b>will give a reading on Monday, September 29, 2008 at
6:00 p.m. in Saint Anthony Hall, 483 College Street. The event is sponsored by
the Department of English and is free and open to the public.<br>
<b> <br>
<i>Louise Glück</i></b>, who has taught at Yale University since 2004, is one
of the country’s most widely admired and decorated poets. A member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Chancellor of the Academy of
American Poets, she has won the Bollingen Prize, The William Carlos Williams
Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the
Wallace Stevens Award. The author of eleven volumes of verse, she served as the
United States Poet Laureate from 2003-2005 and has judged the Yale Series of
Younger poets since 2003. Her work is stark, relentless, and powered by a voice
wholly original and direct. Beginning with 1968’s <i>Firstborn</i>, she has
explored her continual concerns with the self, loss, desire and landscape:
through flowers and the natural world (1992’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning <i>The
Wild Iris</i>), through Greek mythology (<i>The Triumph of Achilles</i>, <i>Ararat</i>,
<i>Meadowlands</i>). Recent work, most notably 2005’s <i>Averno</i>, has taken
a new, meditative tonea sign of Glück’s continual artistic growth and
exploration.<br>
<br>
<b><i>Henri Cole</i>’s</b> eight volumes of poetry have earned him wide
acclaim. Measured, spacious and quick-witted, his poetry is plain-spoken and
ambitious, measuring the territory of the soul through direct observation of
its natural surroundings. In “Gravity and Center,” from his latest book <i>Blackbird
and Wolf</i>, Cole explains “<i>I don’t want words to sever me from reality./ I
don’t want to need them. I want nothing/to reveal feeling but feeling</i>,” and
the sentiment is emblematic of all his recent work: a fundamental belief in
experience, a simultaneous distrust and love for language. His works include <i>The
Visible Man</i> (2005), <i>Middle Earth </i>(2003), <i>The Look of Things</i>
(1995), <i>The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge</i> (1989), and <i>The Marble Queen </i>(1986).
A longtime educator as well as a poet, he has taught at Columbia, Harvard,
Reed, Brandeis, and many other universities, and has won the Berlin Prize from
the American Academy at Berlin, The Rome Fellowship from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. <br>
<br>
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<p>Susan Bianconi<br>
Associate Editor<br>
The Yale Review<br>
P. O. Box 208243<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8243<br>
203/432-0499 <br>
203/432-0510, fax<br>
<a href="mailto:susan.bianconi@yale.edu">susan.bianconi@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection
of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post
announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the
announcement, including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to
the Yale-Readings list may not be posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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