BARNARD
COLLEGE FRENCH DEPARTMENT PRESENTS A BI-LINGUAL
POETRY READING WITH ACCLAIMED CONTEMPORARY FRENCH
POET EMMANUEL HOCQUARD
February
29, 2000, New York, NY- The Department of French
at Barnard College will be hosting a poetry reading
with acclaimed French contemporary poet and visiting
professor, Emmanuel Hocquard, Thursday, March 23,
2000, at 7:30 PM in the Julius S. Held Lecture Hall
(117th Street and Broadway).
Emmanuel
Hocquard, born and raised in Tangiers, is the author
of such acclaimed works as Aerea in the Forests
of Manhattan, Theory of Tables and most recently
This Story Is Mine: Little Autobiographical Dictionary
of Elegy. Hocquard currently serves as the director
of Un bureau sur l'Atlantiqe, an association that
aims to further the relationship between American
and French poets. "His writings provide a very personal
vision of very basic human emotions: love, desire,
coexistence, and the strong need for identity balanced
by the need for privacy," says Danielle Mihram,
professor at University of Southern California.
While
Hocquard will read in French, the poems will also
be read in English by poet-translators: author Norma
Cole, professor Serge Gavronsky and author Ray DiPalma.
Norma Cole is the author of several notable works
of literature such as: Desire and Its Double (1998)
and Spinoza in Her Youth (1999). She has also translated
It Then by Danielle Collobert (1989) and Hocquard's
This Story Is Mine: Little Autobiographical Dictionary
of Elegy (1999). Gavronsky, professor of French
at Barnard College, has translated writers such
as Hocquard, Ponge, Zukofsky, and Mansour. He has
also edited such works as Modern French Poetry and
the forthcoming Six Contemporary French Woman Poets;
his most recent book is Towards a New Poetics: Contemporary
Writing in France. Ray DiPalma, a noted poet, is
the author of several poetry collections such as
Letters (1998), Numbers and Tempers: Selected Early
Poems 1966-1986 (1993) and Metropolitan Corridor
(1992).
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Associate Director of Public Affairs,
212-854-7907 Fareen Walji, Public Affairs Intern,
212-854-2037
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