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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222">Robin Coste Lewis<br>
Wednesday, November 1<span class="date-display-single">, 2023 | 4:30 pm</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Robin Coste Lewis<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase">POET</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Wednesday, November 1<span class="date-display-single">, 2023 | 4:30 pm</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"> </span><a href="https://whc.yale.edu/realization-perfect-helplessness" title="https://whc.yale.edu/realization-perfect-helplessness"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#B27F2E">To
the Realization of Perfect Helplessness</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Twenty-five years ago, after her maternal grandmother’s death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs in an old suitcase under her bed, filled with everything
from sepia tintypes to Technicolor Polaroids. Lewis’s family had survived one of the largest migrations in human history, when six million Americans fled the South, attempting to escape from white supremacy and white terrorism. But these photographs of daily
twentieth-century Black life revealed a concealed, interior history. The poetry Lewis joins to these vivid images stands forth as an inspiring alternative to the usual ways we frame the old stories of “race” and “migration,” placing them within a much vaster
span of time and history. From glamorous outings to graduations, birth announcements, baseball leagues, and back-porch delight, Lewis creates a lyrical documentary about Black intimacy. Instead of colonial nostalgia, she offers us “an exalted Black privacy.”
What emerges is a dynamic reframing of what it means to be human and alive, with Blackness at its center.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Robin Coste Lewis</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">is
the former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. Her service as Poet Laureate of Los Angeles focused on truth and reconciliation projects dealing with the city’s history. Her poetry debut, <i>Voyage
of the Sable Venus</i> (Knopf, 2015), was honored with the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Her next book, <i>To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness</i>, is a genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migration to change the way we
see art, the museum, and the Black female figure.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Link to the full series:
<a href="https://whc.yale.edu/lectures/franke-lectures-humanities">https://whc.yale.edu/lectures/franke-lectures-humanities</a>.
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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 </span><a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
</span><a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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