POETRY AFTER BARBARISM

Next Thursday, April 7, live and in person!, I’ll be delivering a talk delayed by two long years, proposing the ways poetry between languages resists dictatorial forms of geopolitical belonging: “Poetry After Barbarism: Fascism, the Abracadabrant Word, & the Invention of a Motherless Tongue”—at the University of Chicago. It won’t be filmed or live-streamed. It took this long to reschedule because I wished for live intellectual camaraderie in order to think toward a provisional conclusion in the face of the sobering developments toward nationalism and homogenization of experience it contemplates. Look out for more in print.

Image: Emilio Villa, with Silvio Craia and Giorgio Cegna, from Idrologie: palle giranti antistrutture idrologiche, con 6 serigrafie (Roma: Eder, 1968)