I'm looking forward to these presentations. One gets a much better sense
of the writer when there's both critical theory and a reading on the same
day. But also I'm hoping to hear a retelling of Alcalay's charming tale of
playing badminton with Charles Olson.
Barry Alpert
January 29
Ammiel Alcalay
Lannan Foundation Visiting Professor of Poetics
Cross-Cultural Poetics
Seminar: ICC 462 5:30PM
Reading: Copley FL 8:00PM
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic and scholar, focusing on
Hebrew and Jewish literature of the Middle East, in its Islamic, Levantine
Arabic, and Israeli contexts. Recent works include Scrapmetal and from the
warring factions, a book length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of
Srebrenica.
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