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DESCRIPTION:Paul Celan: Honoring the 100th Birthday of the Poet & Holocaust 
 Survivor\n\nHosts: City Lights Books SF & UC Berkeley's Program in Critical 
 Theory\n\nWhen: Mon, November 23, 2020 @ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/under-the-dome-paul-celan-at-100-tickets-124481891689\n\nPaul 
 Celan (1920–1970) is considered one of Europe's greatest post-World-War 
 II poets, known for his astonishing experiments in poetic form, expression, 
 and address.\n\nCelan's poetry, at times dealing directly with the personal 
 aftermath of the Holocaust, has been a touchstone for so many since his 
 passing, and his grappling with what poetry can mean or accomplish in the 
 face of such atrocities has been a major reason why his legacy as one of 
 the most important poets from the later half of the 21st century has 
 endured so strongly.\n\nJoin us on the date of what would have been Celan's 
 100th birthday as we celebrate his life and writings with readings and 
 discussion with special guests, especially highlighting three new books 
 published on this occasion:\n\n"Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan" by 
 Jean Daive, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop with an introduction by Robert 
 Kaufman and Philip Gerard\n(City Lights Books)\n\n"Memory Rose into 
 Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry", a Bilingual Edition by 
 Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris with Commentary by Pierre Joris and 
 Barbara Wiedemann (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)\n\n"Microliths They Are, 
 Little Stones: Posthumous Prose by Paul Celan", translated by Pierre Joris 
 (Contra Mundum Press)\n\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nRosmarie Waldrop, poet, translator, 
 and editor has been a forceful presence in American and international 
 poetry for over forty years. Born in Germany in 1935, Waldrop studied 
 literature and musicology before immigrating to the United States in the 
 late 1950s. Waldrop has authored over 20 books of her own writing, 
 including poetry, fiction, and essays. In 2006 she was elected to the 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\n\nJean Daive, author of over 
 fifteen collections of poetry and seven volumes of fiction, has been an 
 important voice in French letters for over 35 years. He lives and works in 
 Paris.\n\nRobert Kaufman is an associate professor of Comparative 
 Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also teaches 
 in, and is past co-director of, the interdisciplinary Program in Critical 
 Theory. \n\nJudith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of 
 Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, 
 Berkeley. They are the author of Frames of War, Precarious Life, The 
 Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender 
 Trouble, The Force of Nonviolence, and with Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto 
 Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.\n\nFady Joudah has published 
 four collections of poems, The Earth in the Attic, Alight, Textu, a 
 book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone 
 character count; and, most recently, Footnotes in the Order of 
 Disappearance. \n\nD.S. Marriott is originally from the UK, but now lives 
 in Oakland, California. His poetry is often associated with the Cambridge 
 school of poetry. And as a scholar, he has been a leading theorist of 
 afro-pessimism. Recent books of poetry include: Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman, 
 2008) and In Neuter (Equipage, 2012). Whither Fanon? Studies in the 
 Blackness of Being (Stanford University Press, 2018) and Duppies (Commune 
 Editions, 2019).\n\nRoberto Tejada is a poet, art historian, curator, 
 translator, and editor specializing in Latino and Latin American art born 
 in Los Angeles. He is the author of the full-length poetry collections 
 Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019), Full Foreground (2012), 
 Exposition Park (2010), and Mirrors for Gold (2006), as well as the poetry 
 chapbooks Amulet Anatomy (2001) and Gift & Verdict (1999).\n\nTimothy 
 Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University. He is the 
 author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 
 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust 
 as History and Warning. Snyder is a member of the Committee on Conscience 
 of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a permanent fellow of 
 the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.\n\nMary Ann Caws is 
 distinguished professor emerita of English, French, and comparative 
 literature and resident professor in the Graduate School at the City 
 University of New York. She is the author of many books on art and 
 literature, including, Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism, 
 Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar, Virginia Woolf: 
 Illustrated Life, Marcel Proust: Illustrated Life, Robert Motherwell with 
 Pen and Brush, and Pablo Picasso.\n\nNorma Cole is a poet, translator, and 
 visual artist. Her books of poetry include Actualities, Where Shadows Will, 
 and Win these Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. Born in Toronto, 
 Canada, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.\n\nMyung Mi Kim 
 is the author of Civil Bound (Omnidawn), Penury (Omnidawn), Commons 
 (University of California), DURA (Sun and Moon, Nightboat Books), The 
 Bounty (Chax Press), and Under Flag (Kelsey St. Press), winner of The 
 Multicultural Publisher's Exchange Award of Merit. Kim was born in Seoul, 
 Korea and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of nine. She is the James H. 
 McNulty Chair of English at the University at Buffalo.\n\nMichael Palmer 
 was born in New York City in 1943 and long resident in San Francisco, and 
 is the author of At Passages (1995); The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 
 1972–1995 (1998); The Promises of Glass (2000); Codes Appearing: Poems 
 1979–1988 (2001); Company of Moths (2005);  Thread (2011); and, most 
 recently, The Laughter of the Sphinx (2016).\n\nDoris Salcedo was born in 
 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia. Salcedo's understated sculptures and 
 installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from 
 individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. 
 Although elegiac in tone, her works are not memorials: Salcedo concretizes 
 absence, oppression, and the gap between the disempowered and 
 powerful.\n\nRaúl Zurita, winner of the Chilean National Poetry Prize, is 
 one of the most vital voices in contemporary Latin American literature. 
 Among his many books in Spanish are the Dantesque trilogy Purgatorio, 
 Anteparaíso, and La Vida Nueva. Other important books include Zurita and 
 El día más blanco. His books in English translation include Purgatory, 
 Dreams of Kurosawa, Song for His Disappeared Love, and 
 INRI.\n_______________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/20/18838589.php
SUMMARY:Paul Celan: Honoring the 100th Birthday of the Poet & Holocaust Survivor
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