Ariel Resnikoff, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: November 12, 2022
The Poetry Center presents the 37th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, delivered by poet and scholar Ariel Resnikoff. The title of Resnikoff's talk — “Among the Heaps of Brick and Plaster Lies”: Toward a Poetics of Translingual Refuse — comes from a line by Oppen's friend and contemporary Charles Reznikoff, in one of many poems he read at this 1974 occasion when Oppen introduced him for The Poetry Center: Charles Reznikoff: March 21, 1974. Resnikoff's talk focuses on Charles Reznikoff's life, work, and reception among later poets, and the question of "diaspora trouble," with the difficulties it brings.
The George Oppen Memorial Lecture is supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust.
Resnikoff also read his own poems on this visit, two nights earlier at the same location, together with poet 최 Lindsay | Lindsay Choi.
Note: occassional very brief lapses appear in this Fall 2022 recording, due to a loss of the original digital files; the program was fortunately salvaged from the live-streamed video document, with thanks to editor Jesus Rodriguez.
- Publisher
- American Poetry Archives
- Location
- East Bay Media Center, Berkeley
- Date
- 2022-11-12
- Event Run Time
- 01:02:02
- Contributors
- Steve Dickison
- Bob Perelman
- Rights
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