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MARJORIE PERLOFF

THE CARD-GAMES OF
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: MINIMALIST TRANSLATION AND MAXIMAL RESONANCE

A talk as part of HOWE
Saturday, November 9, 3pm

Critic and scholar Marjorie Perloff will give a talk about Ian Hamilton Finlay in conjunction with a small exhibition of Finlay prints that she has selected.

Marjorie Perloff teaches and writes on twentieth and now twenty-first century poetry, poetics, and the visual arts. She is Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University and a scholar in residence at the University of Southern California. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Her most recent book, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2010.

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