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Please join us at the Poetic Research Bureau this evening to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jerome Rothenberg’s rotten-myth-quashing, secularly-sacred-myth-reinforcing Technicians of the Sacred: in the shadow of Thanks-taking. I’ll be reading Quechua poems against settler colonialist bosses without mouths, and interpreting poems about murder-by-dissection from Blake and Jordan Abel.

As 5 Every Day describes the event:

Just about fifty years ago, the poet John Rothenberg published “Technicians of the Sacred,” an unusual anthology pairing avant-garde and experimental poetry from the West with folk songs, artworks, and ritual texts from cultures across the world. In doing so, he created the theory and field of “ethnopoetics,” a formal approach to transcribing oral traditions into poetic text that conveys the power and beauty of those performances on the page, and suggests that poetic literature is larger than geographic, temporal, or cultural boundaries could ever contain. The book has become a landmark, and is now going into its third edition. To celebrate, Rothenberg himself will make an appearance tonight at Chinatown’s Poetic Research Bureau, for a reading and discussion co-presented by The Library Foundation of Los Angeles. With poets David Shook, Harmony Holiday, Will Alexander, Douglas Messerli, and Jennifer Scappettone.

Chinatown 951 Chung King Los Angeles, CA Price: FREE!

Time: 7:30 PM → 10:00 PM

More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/155119055096825/

Tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/155119055096825/

At Rutgers, New Brunswick:

Please join us tomorrow for a workshop and discussion of the poetics and politics of translating poetry lacking a mother tongue!

Workshop on Poetics and Translation with Jennifer Scappettone, U of Chicago Thu, Feb 9, 3-5 pm CCA Seminar Room, 15 Seminary Place, Fifth Floor Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature

July 16, 2016: a lecture for the Virginia Woolf Society at Seikei University in Tokyo

on visual poetry and the dream, or nightmare, of a transnational language

日本ヴァージニア・ウルフ協会７月例会のご案内

梅雨に入り暑さも増してきましたが、みなさま方におかれましては、健やかにお過ごしのことと拝察いたします。さて、事務局から７月例会のご案内を差し上げます。今回は、米国はシカゴ大学から新進気鋭のモダニズムの研究者がゲスト出演され、また協会の研究を牽引してきたヴェテラン大田信良先生がお話をされます。例会終了後の懇親会にもぜひいらしてください。

日時：2016年７月16日午後3時から6時半

場所：成蹊大学10号館2階大会議

司会：中井亜佐子（一橋大学）

Jennifer Scappettone (Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing, and

Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago)

“Between Pentecost and Babel: Wireless Imaginations in Postwar Literary

Arts and the Dream (or Nightmare) of a Transnational Language”

Jennifer Scappettone will give a lecture surrounding the revision of modernist dreams of a supranational language detectable in the visual poetry of the postwar period. She will explore the links between poets’ experiments with graphically explosive form and their aspirations to deflect the ideological inscription of segregated national languages in the aftermath of World War II—by creating verbal tableaus lacking a single “fatherland” or “mother tongue,” which expose the mongrel sources and futures of contemporary idioms. Given that we are meeting in Tokyo, the talk will also present the beginnings of Professor Scappettone’s current research on the reoccupation of Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa’s The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry in visual poetry from Seiichi Niikuni to Xu Bing.

＊Scappettone 先生についてはこのウェッブサイトをご覧下さい：http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/author/jennifer-scappettone/

成蹊大学への交通アクセス：

http://www.seikei.ac.jp/university/accessmap/index.html

このウェッブサイト内にキャンパス・マップへのリンクもあります。

Gian Maria Annovi has written a beautiful review of Killing the Moonlight for alfabeta2. I’m grateful for his identification of a geopoetics of infrastructural inquiry/empathy that I’ve been working on, methodologically speaking, & not without interference, for the past decade or so.

In Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice,…, Jennifer Scappettone sembra riprodurre nella scrittura la geografia fluida della città al centro del suo studio. La studiosa offre al lettore un erudito diario di viaggio che documenta, tra deviazioni spazio-temporali, ritorni e improvvisi sprofondamenti nel presente, le istanze il cui il mito romantico di Venezia si è scontrato e incontrato con la modernità…. Scappettone mostra con un approccio comparativo e interdisciplinare come Venezia non sia necessariamente un altro mostruoso del moderno, uno spazio antitetico alla vita contemporanea in cui trovare un nostalgico rifugio o la morte, ma un laboratorio usato da numerosi artisti e scrittori per far emergere le contraddizioni, i pericoli e i fallimenti stessi dell’ethos e dell’utopismo modernista.

And a smidgeon of traduction, mine:

In Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, Jennifer Scappettone seems to reproduce in writing the fluid geography of the city at the center of her study. The scholar offers the reader an erudite travelogue that documents, between spatiotemporal detours, returns, and sudden fallings into the present, the instances in which the romantic myth of Venice has clashed with and run into modernity…. Scappettone demonstrates with a comparative and interdisciplinary approach how Venice is not necessarily a monstrous other of the modern, a space antithetical to contemporary life in which to find a nostalgic refuge or death, but a laboratory used by numerous artists and writers to make the contradictions, the dangers, and the failures themselves of the modernist ethos and utopianism emerge.

My second post for Harriet: The Blog thinks through what it would mean to consider the performance of an original and translated text as a fundamental part of the act of translation.

“Performance plunges us concretely into translation’s uncommon temporality as we strive to body forth the the cognitive and musical pulse of a text in multiple phases of reanimation. It gets to the heart of ensuring the continued life of a printed text once it has been ‘shelved.'” Read more here.

Photograph courtesy of Dino Ignani

I’m thrilled to be giving the keynote address for “The Poetics of Place: Performing Selves In and Beyond Cities,” the 13th Annual English Studies Graduate Student Conference at the Université de Montréal on March 10-11, 2016.

The event aims to explore the poetics of (non)urban spaces and the ways in which the city serves as a catalyst for self-making and -unmaking in literature and art. Participants are asked to investigate the impact of space on the self, and vice versa, through theories of space, translation, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The working title for my talk is “Breath’s Compass, and the City as Nostalgic Formation.”

See you in Montreal!

The Poetics of Place: Performing Selves In and Beyond Cities March 10-11 2016

In The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre describes the city as “a production and reproduction of human beings by human beings.” This conference aims to explore the poetics of (non)urban spaces and the city as a catalyst for self-making and -unmaking in the various localized manifestations of the self in literature and art. We envision metropolitan, (post)industrial, rural, etc. spaces as socially inflected images with the performative self at the core of their becoming.

If the city is a collage of social relations, is this textual community legible to each individual? Do each of the disappearing selves in Auster’s The New York Trilogy or Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, for example, have equal access to the meanings they produce? How does the marginal or alienated self, like Benjamin’s flâneur or Sontag’s photographer, engage with the city? How do we translate the city? What lies in the gap between the named and unnameable? Might both the clamor and the silence of the city be read as a resistant discourse inflected by class, race, and gender? How does urban silence or complacency compare to the noise of public dissent currently erupting in cities across the globe?

This conference hopes to gather sketches of performative selves navigating the cityscape. Elizabeth Grosz sees bodies and cities as “assemblages or collections of parts” crossing thresholds and forming linkages between other selves and other spaces. How do these crossings and linkages create or deconstruct the self? How is the self performed inside and outside of the city? How is the complex and sometimes contradictory relationship between community and self portrayed in literary texts and cultural spaces?

We invite academic and creative submissions in English or French from graduate students for panels, papers, or performances that interrogate the city and the self from multiple disciplinary perspectives. We invite you to expand on this preliminary list of topics:

• Multilinguality and translation • Performative sexualities and identities • Difference, homogeneity, and state sovereignty • Imagined communities, nationalism, and nostalgia • Transnational subjectivity and challenges to national borders • Migrant and immigrant literatures • Futuristic cities, virtual spaces, and cyborgs • Postcolonial or decolonial cities • Social movements and urban interventions • Disappearing (in) cities • Ecocriticism and eco-cities

I’m thrilled to be joining Emanuela Tandello, Chiara Carpita, Maria Borio, Gian Maria Annovi, Daniela La Penna and Lucia Re this Friday, February 26, in discussion about “the irony of otherness and marginality” in Amelia Rosselli’s poetry.

I’ll be presenting recent work on the event of performance and/as translation: “Chloris in Plural Voices: Performing Translation of a ‘Moonstriking Death.’”

Please join us if you are at or near the University of Oxford!

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Amelia Rosselli is recognized as one of the greatest poetic voices of the twentieth century. Twenty years after her death on 11 February 1996, The Italian Cultural Institute in London and the Sub-Faculty of Italian of the University of Oxford will be celebrating her life, her work and her poetic legacy, through TWO major events:

In London

On February 25th, the Italian Cultural Institute will host the event: “Con maestà e furore. Amelia Rosselli, her Poetry and her Legacy” : with Mariangela Gualtieri, and Cristina Viti, introduced by E. Tandello.

For details see: http://www.icilondon.esteri.it/IIC_Londra/Menu/Gli_Eventi/Calendario/

In Oxford

On the 26th February, The Sub-Faculty of Italian, in conjunction with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and the Italian Cultural Institute, London, will host a Study Day and Round Table on Writing from the Centre: the Irony of Otherness and Marginality in Amelia Rosselli’s Poetry: Study Day and Round Table, to be held in Room 2, Taylorian Institution, St.Giles Oxford OX1 3NA, 14.15 – 18.15. All welcome.

Programme:

14.15     Introduction (E. Tandello, University of Oxford)

14.25     Gian Maria Annovi (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), ‘Amelia Rosselli’: An Eccentric Subject’

15.15     Daniela La Penna (University of Reading) : ‘Sleep and Vernacular Modernism’

15.35   Chiara Carpita (University of Oxford) ‘La stanza di Amelia : sul Fondo di Viterbo’

15.55     Gabriella Palli Baroni (Rome): TBA

15 Tea Break

16.45     Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago), “Chloris in Plural Voices: Performing Translation of a ‘Moonstriking Death’”

17.15     Lucia Re (UCLA) “’Ironicamente fasulla, o v’è una verità?’: Rosselli’s dialogic strategies of citation and poetic appropriation.”

17.45     Round Table (Chaired by Maria Borio and Ela Tandello)

Drinks will be served at 18.15, but the discussion will continue! The event will conclude at 18.45.

For information, please email [email protected]

Un nuovo fascicolo dedicato alla poesia di Amelia Rosselli / A new dossier dedicated to the poetry of Amelia Rosselli:

@ MODERNA, curato da / edited by Emmanuela Tandello and Chiara Carpita

Il mio intervento s’intitola “‘Cantonidisintegratidella / miavita': Closure and Implosion of the Canto(n) in Amelia Rosselli, and the Dream (or Nightmare) of a Transnational Language.”

Emmanuela Tandello, Introduzione. Quadrati, cantoni, cantonate: topografie poetiche di Amelia Rosselli

I. Dialoghi:

Laura Barile, L’uso di Montale nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli

Gabriella Palli Baroni, Fratellanza e destino: Amelia Rosselli e Pier Paolo Pasolini

Lucia Re, Melina morde la mela: il linguaggio affamato di Amelia Rosselli

II. Spazi metrici tra musica e poesia:

Chiara Carpita, «Spazi metrici» tra post-webernismo, etnomusicologia, Gestalttheorie ed astrattismo. Sulle fonti extra-letterarie del ‘nuovo geometrismo’ di Amelia Rosselli

Roberto Gigliucci, Lettere inedite di Amelia Rosselli a David Tudor (1960-1969); Stefano Giovannuzzi, La mente dattilografica

Jennifer Scappettone, «Cantonidisintegratidella/miavita»: Closure and Implosion of the Canto(n) in Amelia Rosselli, and the Dream (or Nightmare) of a Transnational Language

III. Bilanci:

Repertorio bibliografico su Amelia Rosselli (2001-2008)

Emmanuela Tandello, Premessa

Ann Snodgrass, Knowing Noise. The English Poems of Amelia Rosselli (Gian Maria Annovi)

Silvia De March, Amelia Rosselli tra poesia e storia (Laura Barile)

Alessandro Baldacci, Amelia Rosselli (Stefano Giovannuzzi)

Tatiana Bisanti, L’opera plurilingue di Amelia Rosselli. Un “distorto, inesperto, espertissimo linguaggio” (Viviana Ponta)

Emmanuela Tandello, La fanciulla e l’infinito (Chiara Carpita)

Francesco Carbognin, Le armoniose dissonanze. Spazio metrico e intertestualità nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli (Emmanuela Tandello)

Florinda Fusco, Amelia Rosselli (Gabriella Palli Baroni)