No Time for Poetry?: Susan Howe to read at the Centre Pompidou in Paris

Monday, October 19, 2009

Susan Howe to read at the Centre Pompidou in Paris

Thursday October 29, at 7:30 p.m., Susan Howe will give a reading at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Friday October 30, beginning at 9:30 a.m., a series of talks about Howe's work ending with a reading from Howe, will be given at University Paris VII, Institut Charles V, room A 50, 10, rue Charles V, 75004 Paris. Organized by Abigail Lang and Antoine Cazé.

Hélène Aji (Université du Maine), “I [will not] Gather the Limbs of Osiris”: Susan Howe’s Mystical History.
Isabelle Alfandary (Université Lyon II), “Reading Emily Dickinson: My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe”.
Will Montgomery (Royal Holloway), “Susan Howe’s Later Lyric”.
Antoine Cazé (Université Paris-Diderot), “Susan Howe: TransParencies”.
Christine Savinel (Université Paris III), “Of Lateness and Lapses in Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract”.
Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway), “Book parks: scripted enclosures and Susan Howe’s spatial poetics”.
Susan Howe (The American Academy in Berlin), “Poems and Documents".

Saturday, October 31: Susan Howe speaks about Emily Dickinson at the Petit Palais.

"Autour d’Emily Dickinson avec Susan Howe et Dominique Fourcade

En partenariat avec Double Change, avec Abigail Lang.Susan Howe, l’un des plus importants poètes américains aujourd’hui, chercheuse passionnée, évoquera « son » Emily Dickinson. L’essai lyrique qu’elle a consacré à Dickinson en 1985, My Emily Dickinson, éd. A New Directions Book 2007, renouvelle la critique de ce poète majeur du 19ème siècle. Pour cette rencontre au Petit Palais, Susan Howe est allée à Amherst étudier les derniers fragments de Dickinson qui juxtaposent écriture, signes graphiques, marques acoustiques. Une sélection de ces fragments sera projetée. Susan Howe a demandé, pour la circonstance, à Dominique Fourcade d’en donner une traduction et d’improviser avec elle un commentaire. de 15 à 17h" (www.paris.fr/portail/Culture)

Links:

Susan Howe, portrait (www.poets.org).

Susan Howe page (epc.buffalo.edu)

Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson (1985), excerpts (www.writing.upenn.edu).

Recordings of Susan Howe from Line Break (www.writing.upenn.edu).

Double Change (www.doublechange.org).

Poetry Anthologies

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Rampersad, Arnold (ed), The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, Oxford: OUP, 2006.
Rees-Jones, Deryn (ed), Modern Women Poets, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2005.
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Poetry's Rhythms & Forms

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Criticism & Commentary

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Susan Howe to read at the Centre Pompidou in Paris

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