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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 4:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">A Reading from</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span></b></span><em><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Thrall</span></b></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">by
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Natasha Trethewey</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">is
the 19th United States Poet Laureate (2012-2013). In his citation, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote "Her poems dig beneath the surface of history—personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago—to explore the human struggles that we
all face." She is the author of Thrall (2012), Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association, and Domestic Work (Graywolf,
2000). She is also the author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (University of Georgia Press).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">This event is in conjunction with the Beinecke Library’s current exhibition: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">By Hand: A Celebration of the Manuscript Collections of Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">On view January 18 – April 29, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">By Hand</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">celebrates
the fiftieth anniversary of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript with an exploration of its manuscript collections. The exhibition begins where the Yale College Library collection of early manuscripts began, with a mirror of humanity, a copy of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Speculum
humanae salvationis</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>given by Elihu Yale. It ends with the manuscripts and drafts of “Miracle of the Black Leg,” a poem written by U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey while she was a research fellow at
the Beinecke Library in 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Manuscript, from the Latin term “by hand,” derives from the ablative case: locational, instrumental, situated always in relation to something or someone else. Like the term, this
exhibition explores the reflections of humanity in the Beinecke’s manuscript collections, presenting them as markers of the social contracts of love, creativity, need, power, that bind us into historical record even as they bind us to one another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">The exhibition ranges across the Beinecke Library manuscript collections, in an extraordinary display of the Library’s manuscript holdings, from papyri of the 2nd century A.D. through
working drafts by contemporary poets, from manuscripts in the original Yale Library to recent additions to the collections. On view are manuscripts, notes, and proof copies of works by Langston Hughes, Rachel Carson, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Terry
Tempest Williams, James Joyce, F. T. Marinetti, Goethe, and others; the Voynich Manuscript, the Vinland Map, the Lewis and Clark expedition map and journals, the Martellus map; the last paragraphs of Thoreau’s manuscript of<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Walden</span></em>;
letters, postcards, poetry, and notes by Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Georgia O’Keeffe, Franz Kafka, Mark Twain, Erica Jong, and others; early manuscripts from a tenth-century Byzantine prayer roll, a fragment of lyric verse on papyri, the Rothschild
Canticles, a fourteenth-century ivory writing tablet, and the first illuminated medieval manuscript known in a North American collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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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