Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture September 2010

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Internationally renowned Polish poet Adam Zagajewski gives Boston University's semiannual Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture. He is joined by David Ferry, the Sophie Chantal Hart (GRS'96), a recent graduate of BU's Creative Writing Program, for a reading and a book signing. 

Zagajewski, a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, teaches at the University of Chicago. His recent books include Eternal Enemies and Without End: New and Selected Poems. 

Ferry, a distinguished translator of Horace, Virgil, and The Epic of Gilgamesh, also authored the prize-winning Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems.

Duff recently published a book of poems, To the New World.

Hosted by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Creative Writing Program on September 15, 2010.

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