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<p class="MsoNormal">Yale Literature and Spirituality Series<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/PeterCole.html">The Poetry of Kabbalah, the Kabbalah of Poetry</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture in Religion and Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Peter Cole, poet and translator</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thursday, Oct. 11 | 5:15 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Marquand Chapel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">(409 Prospect St., New Haven)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lecture followed by reception and book-signing. Free; no tickets required. Plenty of free parking.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Peter Cole is</span><span style="color:#222222"> the author of three books of poems, most recently <i>Things on Which I've Stumbled</i> (New Directions, 2008). Last April, <i>The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse
from the Jewish Tradition </i>was published as part of Yale U. Press's Margellos World Republic of Letters series. A book of non-fiction,<i>Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza,</i> written with Adina Hoffman, was published in 2011 by
Schocken/Nextbook. Cole's other volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include <i>The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492</i> (Princeton), Aharon Shabtai's <i>War and Love, Love and War: New & Selected Poems </i>(New
Directions), Taha Muhammad Ali's <i>So What: New & Selected Poems 1973-2005</i> (Copper Canyon), and <i>Hebrew Writers on Writing</i> (Trinity).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.yale.edu/ism">www.yale.edu/ism</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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">
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/<br>
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