Carolyn Forche, Lucia Perillo, and Nancy Pearl
07/09/2007
Poetry can give words to unspeakable crimes. Today, poet, translator and human rights activist Carolyn Forché shares poetry inspired by the atrocities that defined the 20th century. Also, Nancy Pearl shares a novel that threatens to break the boundaries of the page.At 2:07 p.m. – Carolyn Forché Reading at Seattle Arts and Lectures
Poet, translator and human rights activist Carolyn Forché has written movingly about many of the atrocities that defined the 20th century – the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the military dictatorship in El Salvador, and the continuing wars in the Middle East. In an appearance at the 2007 Seattle Arts and Lectures Poetry Series, Forche reads from The Angel of History, her 1994 collection of poems that deal with the "moral disasters" of the 20th century, and talks about how she came to write in response to the most unspeakable events of modern history.
Recorded as part of the 2007 Seattle Arts and Lectures Poetry Series, recorded by Intiman Theatre on March 26th, 2007.
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At 2:20 p.m. – Lucia Perillo
Adjusting to unfamiliar surroundings and circumstances dramatically alters our outlook on life. As our lives and bodies change, new insights can come from observing nature. Lucia Perillo is an Olympia, Washington poet who lives with multiple sclerosis and writes about her experience in I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness and Nature. She joins us to share how seagulls, salmon and bats have helped her better understand her own place in the world.
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At 2:45 p.m. – Nancy Pearl
Our weekly visit with Public Radio librarian and author of More Book Lust, Nancy Pearl.
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