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A Seminar with American
poet Michael HELLER
Vendredi 8 février 2013
Organized by Hélène AJI for ELAN (Etudes
en Littérature anglaise et d’Amérique du Nord, CREA, EA 370), in collaboration with "Transferts Critiques et
dynamique des savoirs" (EA1569, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis).
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Défense, Bâtiment V, salle V 411 (4e étage).
14h-15h : « Now-Time Poetics:
Under the Sign of Benjamin »
Keynote lecture by Michael HELLER (New
York University).
15h-16h : « A Few Modes of
Objectivist Poetics »
Round table moderated by Brigitte FÉLIX
(Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) with Fiona McMahon (Université de Bourgogne), Xavier KALCK (Université
Paris-Sorbonne) and Hélène AJI (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense).
16h-16h30 : Coffee and cookies
16h30-17h30 :
Bilingual poetry reading celebrating Michael Heller’s
This Constellation is a Name, Collected
Poems 1965-2010 (New York : Nightboat Books, 2012).
Michael Heller has published over twenty volumes of
poetry, essays and memoir. His newest book is This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010. Other
recent works include: Eschaton
(2009), a book of poems, and Beckmann
Variations & Other Poems, a work in prose and poetry (2010). His
collection of essays on George Oppen, Speaking
the Estranged, was published in 2008. An expanded edition was published in
2012.
His many awards and honors include
prizes from The New School for Social Research, Poetry in Public Places, the
New York State CAPS Fellowship in Poetry, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of
the Poetry Society of America, a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship,
the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fund for Poetry.
For many years, he was on the
faculty of New York University and has taught at The Naropa University, The New
School, San Francisco State, Notre Dame and other universities. His papers are
collected in the Stanford University Libraries.
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