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<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Please join us for the launch and poetry reading of
<i>The Five Quintets</i> by Micheal O'Siadhail, Thursday, October 25, 7:00-8:30 in the Lecture Hall at Sterling Memorial Library</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Renowned Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail’s forthcoming magnum opus explores human culture through the arts, economics, politics, science, and philosophy and theology.
<i>The Five Quintets</i> offers a sustained reflection on modernity—people and movements—in poetic meter. Just as Dante, in his Divine Comedy, summed up the Middle Ages on the cusp of modernity,
<i>The Five Quintets</i> takes stock of a late modern world on the cusp of the first-ever global century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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O’Siadhail structures his Quintets to echo the <i>Comedy</i>. Where Dante had a tripartite structure (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), O’Siadhail has a five-part structure, with each quintet devoted to a discipline. Each quintet is also marked by a different
form: sonnets interspersed by haikus (“saikus”), iambic pentameter, terza rima, and two other invented forms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>The Five Quintets</i> captivates even as it instructs, exploring the ever-changing flow of ideas and the individuals whose contributions elicited change and reflected their times. The artists, economists, politicians, scientists, and philosophers O’Siadhail
features lived complex lives, often full of contradictions. Others, though deeply rooted in their context, transcended their time and place and pointed beyond themselves—even to us and to a time after modernity’s reign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">MICHEAL O’SIADHAIL is an internationally acclaimed poet whose works include
<i>Collected Poems</i> and <i>One Crimson Thread</i>. He is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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