[Wgcp-whc] Reminder--first Gander session this Friday at 3

[Richard Deming]

Dear Friends,

this is just a note to remind you all that we will be meeting this Friday from 3 PM - 5 PM in room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center.  The focus of this session will be Forrest Gander's Core Samples of the World, which combines poetry, prose, and photography, drawing on the Japanese tradition of the Haibun,  The copies that we put out last week are all distributed at this point.

Then Gander himself will join us on Oct 17th at 3 PM - 5 PM to continue our warm and open discuss of this fascinating work. 

All best,
Richard Deming, Co-coordinator 




“Forrest Gander is a Southern poet of a relatively hard kind, a restlessly experimental writer….Be ready for a ride.”-Robert Hass

“In the hands of the lyrical, insightful Forrest Gander, words express unspeakable secrets, they trace hidden connections between friends and lovers, and they make us aware of the expansive power of the imagination.” -Joanna Scott

“What really haunts Gander, who is a translator as well as a poet, isn’t so much death as the complexities of life: the frequently unknown stories that lie beneath and within the stories we tell.” -Washington Post

With an “unflinchingly curious mind,” celebrated poet Forrest Gander has become known for the richness of his language and his undaunted lyric passion. A translator, essayist, and the editor of two anthologies of Mexican poetry, Gander is the author of more than a dozen books, including collaborations with notable artists and photographers. His 2011 poetry collection Core Samples from the World (New Directions)-a collaboration with the photographers Graciela Iturbide, Raymond Meeks, and Lucas Foglia-was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include his gemlike first novel As A Friend (2008) and The Trace (2014); the poetry collections Eye Against Eye (with photographs by Sally Mann); Torn Awake; Science & Steepleflower; and the essay collection Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory & Transcendence.

Gander’s translations include Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D’Aquino (Copper Canyon, 2014), longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America, translated with Raúl Zurita; Watchword, the Villaurrutia Award-winning book by Mexican Poet Laureate Pura Lopez Colome (Wesleyan, 2012); Spectacle & Pigsty, a co-translation with Kyoko Yoshida of selected poems by contemporary Japanese poet Kiwao Nomura (OmniDawn Press, 2011), which won the Best Translated Book Award for 2012; Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho (2008), which was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize; and, with Kent Johnson, The Night by Jaime Saenz. Gander’s essays have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Review, and American Poetry Review, among others.

In 2008, Gander was named a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow, one of 50 artists to be recognized for artistic excellence, unique artistic vision, and significant contributions to their fields. Gander is also the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, Howard, and Whiting Foundations; and he has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry.

With poet C.D. Wright, Gander lives in Rhode Island, where he is professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He teaches courses on phenomenology and poetics, Asian-American literature, and translation.
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