Mark Eisner's Blog - Posts Tagged "neruda"
LitQuake SF October 9th!
Thrilled to announce what promises to be a beautiful evening in San Francisco, as part of the amazing annual LitQuake festival, co-presented by City Lights Publishing
The Infinite Man: A Celebration of Pablo Neruda
It will serve as the launch for Venture of the Infinite Man. Published by City Lights, it's a project I spearheaded, asking my dear friend Jessica Powell to take on the terrifically challenging translation. I wrote the intro. (Check out the goodreads book link for more info.)
We'll share the stage with other friends--Bill O'Daly with Neruda's first book, Book of Twilights, which just came out as well, from Copper Canyon. Last year, Copper Canyon also published Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems It's tan querido translator, Forrest Gander, who contributed some to The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, will be on stage as well.
And it includes a hosted wine bar!
Please check out the link and please check out the event, as well as all of San Francisco's LitQuake! (the flowers in my hair will no longer stay in place...)
https://litquake2017.sched.com/event/...
The Infinite Man: A Celebration of Pablo Neruda
It will serve as the launch for Venture of the Infinite Man. Published by City Lights, it's a project I spearheaded, asking my dear friend Jessica Powell to take on the terrifically challenging translation. I wrote the intro. (Check out the goodreads book link for more info.)
We'll share the stage with other friends--Bill O'Daly with Neruda's first book, Book of Twilights, which just came out as well, from Copper Canyon. Last year, Copper Canyon also published Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems It's tan querido translator, Forrest Gander, who contributed some to The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, will be on stage as well.
And it includes a hosted wine bar!
Please check out the link and please check out the event, as well as all of San Francisco's LitQuake! (the flowers in my hair will no longer stay in place...)
https://litquake2017.sched.com/event/...
What Neruda Owes Whitman - May 19th - Brooklyn Public Library
Near New York?
Once again at the wonderful Brooklyn Public Library, near where Walt Whitman stepped off that Brooklyn Ferry...
thrilled and honored to be a part of their Whitman bi-centennial celebrations, giving a 9 minute "lightening lecture" on Pablo's relationship to Walt, "These Whitman 200th Anniversary "lightning lectures" examine the vast scope of Whitman's legacy on poetry in the 20th century and beyond, and explore critically and swiftly where his vision and style came from." Besides myself there will be scholar Karen Karbiener on the moment Whitman became a poet, scholar Matt Miller on Whitman's creative process, Jesse Merandy on Whitman and an app of Whitman's Brooklyn, and musician Greg Trupiano on Whitman and opera, among others.
More info: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar...
And in conjunction, we've released a (rough) classic clip of two great people poet's themselves talking about Neruda and Whitman, an interview of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman we taped for the Neruda documentary in 2010, in the poetry room of City Lights Bookstore (which Lawrence founded): https://vimeo.com/redpoppy/cl-litquake
That whole interview definitely helped inform some important parts of Neruda: The Biography of a Poet... some of the lines are quoted in its pages...
Once again at the wonderful Brooklyn Public Library, near where Walt Whitman stepped off that Brooklyn Ferry...
thrilled and honored to be a part of their Whitman bi-centennial celebrations, giving a 9 minute "lightening lecture" on Pablo's relationship to Walt, "These Whitman 200th Anniversary "lightning lectures" examine the vast scope of Whitman's legacy on poetry in the 20th century and beyond, and explore critically and swiftly where his vision and style came from." Besides myself there will be scholar Karen Karbiener on the moment Whitman became a poet, scholar Matt Miller on Whitman's creative process, Jesse Merandy on Whitman and an app of Whitman's Brooklyn, and musician Greg Trupiano on Whitman and opera, among others.
More info: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar...
And in conjunction, we've released a (rough) classic clip of two great people poet's themselves talking about Neruda and Whitman, an interview of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman we taped for the Neruda documentary in 2010, in the poetry room of City Lights Bookstore (which Lawrence founded): https://vimeo.com/redpoppy/cl-litquake
That whole interview definitely helped inform some important parts of Neruda: The Biography of a Poet... some of the lines are quoted in its pages...
