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Event

Peter Cole
Inventory and the Poetry of Things

Date

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Time

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Place

Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street

COST

$25.00 General Admission
$17.00 Students and Seniors

RSVP required to 212.501.3011, programs@bgc.bard.edu

Description

Peter Cole and Peter Miller talk about the poetry in-and of-the things of daily life, such as the objects in Margrieta's inventory or those mentioned in letters of medieval Jewish traders found in the Cairo Geniza, which Cole shaped into a long and fascinating poem, "Things on Which I've Stumbled," from which he will read excerpts.The gallery talk will be followed by an exhibition viewing and reception. Peter Cole is a poet, translator, and author of three books of poetry: Rift, Hymns & Qualms and Things on Which I've Stumbled. He is a 2007 MacArthur Fellow and publisher of Ibis Editions in Jerusalem. Peter N. Miller is dean and chair of academic programs at the Bard Graduate Center.


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Related Links

Dutch New York Between East and West

Ruth Piwonka , David Voorhees
Flatbush in the Seventeenth Century


Bernard L. Herman
Inventory: Text and Context


Symposium:Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick

The Exhibition

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Seminar in New York & American Material Culture

The Material Culture of New York City: The 19th Century

Visualizing Nineteenth-Century New York: A BGC-NYPL Digital Exhibition Course

Visualizing Nineteenth-Century New York: A BGC-NYPL Digital Exhibition Course II

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