Remembering Alberto de Lacerda

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Channel: Boston University · 2010 · Education

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Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri (GRS'93, UNI'95,'97), Boston University President Emeritus John Silber (Hon.'95), and several others read poetry and personal tributes at an evening to remember and celebrate the life and work of Alberto de Lacerda, a renowned Portuguese poet and a University Professor emeritus of poetics and comparative literature, who died in August 2007.

Hosted by The University Professors Program and the Humanities Foundation at Boston University on March 3, 2008.

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