Visions and Bound-ries
An Evening with Three American Poets
Friday, April 26, 2002
7:30 p.m
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
The Getty Research Institute is pleased to present an evening of
poetry with acclaimed writers David Antin, Marvin Bell, and Jorie
Graham. Each has been commissioned to write a poem bearing on the
Research Institute's 2001–2002 theme "Frames of Viewing:
Perception, Experience, Judgment." At Visions and Bound-ries,
these poets, all of whom have examined the dilemmas of how body,
mind, and one's culture combine to produce perception and experience,
will read their new poems as well as some of the earlier work that
has secured their place among the most noted figures of contemporary
American poetry.
Marvin Bell
Title: The Journal of the Posthumous Present
Marvin Bell is the author of seventeen books of poetry and essays,
and the recipient of many awards, including the Lamont Award from
the Academy of American Poets, Guggenheim and National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowships, and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia
and Australia. Bell's lates book, Nightworks: Poems 1962–2000,
employs the groundbreaking poetic form first featured in The
Book of the Dead Man and Ardor. Widely anthologized,
He has been called a "maverick" and "an insider who thinks like
an outsider." Bell is Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at
the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop, and in 2000 was named
the State of Iowa's first Poet Laureate.
Jorie Graham
Title: Little History of Poverty
Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including
Never (2002), Swarm (2000), and The Dream of the
Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974–1994, which won the
1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her many honors include a John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel
Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
She has taught at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and was
recenently the first woman appointed Boylston Professor in the Department
of English and American Literature at Harvard University. Graham
was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1997.
David Antin
Title: How Wide Is the Frame?
David Antin is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California,
San Diego, as well as a poet, a critic, and a performer. He has
published nine volumes of poetry and numerous essays in art and
literary journals. Since 1972 he has been working at "talk poems"—
improvised, speculative meditations that are described by some critics
as a combination of Wittgenstein and Lenny Bruce, or alternately
Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein. Antin is currently a Visiting Scholar
in Residence at the Getty Research Institute, where he is working
on a project that concerns changing the frame of reference for a
theory of modernism.
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