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Event Name:

Alda Merini in Translation

Address:

247 E. 82nd Street
New York, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Thu Sep 9 2010 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Thu Sep 9 2010 at 8:30 PM

Hosting Organization:

Philoctetes Center

Contact Name:

Adam Ludwig

Contact Email Address:

info@philoctetes.org

Contact Phone Number:

646-422-0544

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Event Cost:

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Event Description:

The poets Paolo Valesio, editor of "Italian Poetry Review," and Susan Stewart, Alda Merini's translator, will read from Merini's work. Discussion will consider both the development of her voice in the early context of her association with the modernist writers Manganelli, Quasimodo, Pasolini and others, and her role in Italian poetry in recent decades. An almost exact contemporary of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Merini, despite her mental illness, changed and survived as an artist. The open question of what made that survival possible will also be addressed.