- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Risk, and its Place in the Life and Art of Poetry'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 03/06/2005 - 03/06/2005
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
- Description: Carl Phillips, poet, Washington University, St Louis
Artists-at-Work Series
- Detailed Information: What is the relationship between risk and the making of original art? To what degree can the artist do anything but what he or she does, regardless of public reception? These and other questions will be explored in the course of examining the inextricable relationship between life and art for that artist who can truly be called an “original” maker of what Marianne Moore has called “the genuine.”
Carl Phillips (English, Washington University in St. Louis) is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Rest of Love. His other books include Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry and a translation of Sophocles’s Philoctetes. A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Phillips won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book The Tether. Other honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lambda Book Award, the Morse Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress.
