We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Robert Tuck, an Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at Arizona State University who received his PhD … [Read more...]
Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Robert Tuck (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese … [Read more...]
Sept. 26 Event: “Luminous Memories: Bei Dao in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger:” Video and Photos
Video and photographs are now available from the September 26, 2017 event "Luminous Memories: Bei Dao in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger." During the sold-out event in Jerome Greene Hall, Bei Dao, widely recognized as the foremost poet of his generation, engaged essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger in a conversation about his newly published book, City Gate, Open Up, … [Read more...]
“Luminous Memories: Bei Dao in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger”
Panel Discussion "Luminous Memories: Bei Dao in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger" Bei Dao, Poet and Author Eliot Weinberger, Essayist 6:10 PM - 8:00 PM Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104 Registration required. Please register at https://luminousmemories.eventbrite.com Bei Dao, widely recognized as the foremost poet of his generation, will engage essayist and … [Read more...]
“Poetry as Pluriverse: Thinking Global Language Justice” – Public Reading
Inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Global Language Justice 2017-2019 "Poetry as Pluriverse: Thinking Global Language Justice" Anne Waldman,Poet Bei Dao, Poet Raúl Zurita, Poet Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Poet Sharmistha Mohanty, Poet Daouda Ndiaye, Poet Mohmammed Bennis, Poet Orlando White, Poet Zhai Yongming, Poet Mary Ann Caws, Translator Li Tuo, … [Read more...]
