“His poetry is at once intellectually demanding, morally and politically complex, wide in its human sympathies and shot through with a sane and sober humour,” wrote Jonathan Raban.
Durs Grünbein’s latest book is The Vocation of Poetry. “What was it in Grünbein that so seized my attention?” wrote Helen Vendler. “It was the sardonic humor, the savagery, the violent candor—all expressed in lines of cool formal elegance. In Grünbein’s pages, uncontrollable feeling encounters the at first invisible control of an expert technique.”
James Fenton will be introduced by Richard Howard. Durs Grünbein will be introduced by Michael Eskin, who will also be reading English translations of Grünbein’s work.
$19 / $10 for those 35 and under
Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 8:15 pm
Venue: Buttenwieser Hall
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
Event Code: TF12T71016
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RE “Crazy Women in Politics”—as regards those from Down Here, politicians or not, I suggest any further pronouncements on the subject be conceded to the Divine Dixie Carter, whose spirit will remain vibrantly with us…at least so long as there’s YouTube!–http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3KQgulBzh0
“$19 / $10 for those 35 and under”–discounts for the “youth” under… 35? A bit pathetic, no?