From a press release:
The Invention of Influence, Reading by MacArthur Fellow Poet Peter Cole at UNC Asheville, Oct. 8
Peter Cole, poet, translator and recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, will give a reading, The Invention of Influence, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8 in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. His talk is free and open to the public.
The Invention of Influence (New Directions, 2014) is the most recent of Cole’s four books of poetry, which also include Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (New Directions, 2008). Cole’s numerous translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (Yale University Press, 2012) and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, c. 950-1492 (Princeton University Press, 2007), which received the National Jewish Book Award and the American Publishers Association’s Award for Book of the Year. He has received numerous honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the PEN Translation Prize.
Cole’s lecture is sponsored by the UNC Asheville Center for Jewish Studies, the Creative Writing program and the Belk Distinguished Professor in the Humanities. For more information contact the Center for Jewish Studies at 828.232.5027.
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