[Yale-readings] October 11: Peter Cole

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Yale Literature and Spirituality Series
The Poetry of Kabbalah, the Kabbalah of Poetry<http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/PeterCole.html>
The Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture in Religion and Literature
Peter Cole, poet and translator

Thursday, Oct. 11 | 5:15 PM
Marquand Chapel
(409 Prospect St., New Haven)

Lecture followed by reception and book-signing. Free; no tickets required. Plenty of free parking.

Peter Cole is the author of three books of poems, most recently Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions, 2008). Last April, The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition was published as part of Yale U. Press's Margellos World Republic of Letters series. A book of non-fiction,Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, written with Adina Hoffman, was published in 2011 by Schocken/Nextbook.  Cole's other volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Princeton), Aharon Shabtai's War and Love, Love and War: New & Selected Poems (New Directions), Taha Muhammad Ali's So What: New & Selected Poems 1973-2005 (Copper Canyon), and Hebrew Writers on Writing (Trinity).

Cordially,
Melissa Maier
Manager of Publications and External Relations
Yale Institute of Sacred Music
www.yale.edu/ism<http://www.yale.edu/ism>


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 nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.<http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.

For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library: http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/
<https://connect.yale.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=6bef91e5794d4f25ac0a71614e19477a&URL=http%3a%2f%2fbeineckepoetry.wordpress.com%2f>


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/yale-readings/attachments/20121004/885e47c6/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: MN035282.COLE.2.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 809586 bytes
Desc: MN035282.COLE.2.pdf
Url : http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/yale-readings/attachments/20121004/885e47c6/attachment-0001.pdf