[Wgcp-whc] Joan Retallack this Friday 3-5

[richard.deming at yale.edu]

Dear Poeticians--

just a reminder that we will have our first session of the new semester this
Friday from 3-5 PM in rm 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center.  We will be
joined by Joan Retallack, author of Poethical Wager,a book of essays on
poetics, as well as Memnoir, Afterimages, and other books of poems.  This is a
reschedued visit from last semester.


Her official bio is as follows:

Joan Retallack?s most recent publication is her Gertrude Stein: Selections
with an extensive introduction/discussion of Stein?s work, brought out by
University of California Press. She is the author of seven volumes of poetry
including Memnoir, Mongrelisme, How To Do Things With Words, Afterrimages, and
Errata 5uite which won the Columbia Book Award chosen by Robert Creeley.
Currently at work on a poetic project, ?The Reinvention of Truth,?
Retallack is the author of Musicage: John Cage in Conversation with Joan
Retallack, Wesleyan University Press, recipient of the America Award in
Belles-Lettres. Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary
(Palgrave MacMillan, co-edited with Juliana Spahr) came out in 2006. The
Poethical Wager, a book of interrelated essays, was published in 2004 by the
University of California Press. She was the recipient of a Lanan Foundation
award for poetry in 1998-99. A collection of Retallack?s procedural poems
will come out next year from Roof Books. Retallack has had the pleasure of
living in the Hudson Valley since January 2000 when she became the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College.

It is harder to imagine a more erutite and rigorous thinker about poetics and
radical form, so this will be a very exciting and provocative discussion. 
Please do spread the word to any interested parties.  We welcome all visitors.

Onward,
Richard Deming