Thursday, February 10, 2011

An Exploration of Poetry and Comics w/ Professor Stephen Burt and Monica Youn

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A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night: An Exploration of Poetry and Comics
Professor Stephen Burt and Monica Youn

Monica Youn's recent collection Ignatz, a finalist for the National Book Award, takes figures and structures from the great Modernist comic stripKrazy Kat. Youn and Burt intersperse readings from Ignatz with a discussion of Krazy Kat and other comics, the relations between words and images, and the utility of aposiopesis.

Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Room 330
Free and open to the public.