Thursday, October 22· 7pm– 8:30pm
Seminar: Reading García Lorca’s Poet in New York with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
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This three-session seminar on Poet in New York begins from the presumption that García Lorca is not an obfuscating poet, but rather one of our most radically legible poets, one who made visible forms of love and desire that fascism would not tolerate. It passes right beside us as a mystery and desire for all things
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that poetry can possess, or be possessed by, the awful, cosmic problem that we seek to battle with in the murky world we may already know. Rather than deciphering symbols as fixed codes, we will ask how his work teaches us to read relationships between body and landscape, desire and death, history and myth, language and silence, etc.