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Poetry Reading: Cecil Giscombe - Berkeley Arts & Ideas May 27, 2020

Cecil Giscombe (English, U.C. Berkeley) will present live readings of his selected poems. Moderated by Anthony J. Cascardi, Dean of Arts and Humanities, U.C. Berkeley Poet and U.C. Berkeley Professor of English C. S. Giscombe’s books of poetry are Prairie Style, Giscome Road, Here, etc.; his book of linked essays (concerning Canada, race, and family) is Into and Out of Dislocation. His recognitions include the 2010 Stephen Henderson Award, an American Book Award (for Prairie Style) and the Carl Sandburg Prize (for Giscome Road). Ohio Railroads (a poem in essay form) was published in 2014 and Border Towns (essays on poetry, color, nature, television, etc.) appeared in 2016. Forthcoming poetry texts include Similarly, a “collected and new” volume due in the summer of 2020, and Train Music—a collaboration with the painter Judith Margolis—which will appear in 2021. He is from southwest Ohio but has lived and worked in northern British Columbia, central Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and downstate Illinois. He is a long-distance cyclist. Anthony J. Cascardi is Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish, and Dean of Arts and Humanities at U.C. Berkeley. He works on literature and philosophy, aesthetic theory, and early modern literature, with an emphasis on Spanish, English, and French. He teaches courses on Cervantes, literature and philosophy, aesthetic theory and the early modern period. Most recently he published Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, the co-edited volume Poiesis and Modernity and The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy. He is currently completing a study of the art of Francisco de Goya. This program is presented by UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities as part of the Arts & Ideas Live Online! series.