Kalogeris at the Grolier, September 2012

George Kalogeris reads from his new collection, Dialogos (Antilever Press), at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, on September 13, 2012. Video by Mark Schorr.

David Ferry to read at Boston University

The estimable poet and translator David Ferry will be launching the Fall 2012 Poetry Reading Series at Boston University, on Monday, September 24th at 6 PM. This free and public reading will take place in the Katzenberg Center, 3rd Floor, 871 Commonwealth Avenue (BU West T-stop on the Green Line). (RSVP here)

Ferry is the author of Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations, winner of the 2000 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is the translator of Gilgamesh (1992), The Odes of Horace (1998), The Eclogues of Virgil (1999), The Epistles of Horace (2001), winner of the Landon Translation Prize, and The Georgics of Virgil (2005), all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ferry's other awards include the Sixtieth Fellowship of The Academy of American Poets, the Teasdale Prize for Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award, and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize from AGNI magazine.

His new book, Bewilderment, was released this year by the University of Chicago Press.

Books will be available for sale. Please contact Meg Tyler at (617) 358-4199 or mtyler@bu.edu with any questions. This event co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Boston University and the College of General Studies.

MARICK PRESS

This little outfit in Michigan is publishing little-known books of great quality. Last summer they brought out 7PROSE by Franz Wright, a slim paperback in a paper wrapper. A text from this collection, concerning Wright's visit to see a friend in a Boston mental ward, will appear in the forthcoming issue of The Charles River Journal.

MIŁOSZ REVIEWED

Enda O'Doherty has a long review in the Dublin Review of Books, of the essays by Czesław Miłosz collected in Proud to Be a Mammal (a book discouragingly not available in the US market at the time of this post).  O'Doherty writers in reference to one section:

From the martyred Poland of the war years, the country of German occupation, casual murder and coolly planned genocide, Miłosz wrote a sequence of short naive poems entitled "The World." An excerpt from one of those, titled "Love": "Love means to learn to look at yourself / The way one looks at distant things / For you are only one thing among many."

Read the review, titled "All Things Considered," at the DRB website.