Posts Tagged ‘Warren Heiti’
About Warren:
Warren Heiti is currently a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Dalhousie University. His research interests include ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, ecological ethics, and lyric philosophy. He has taught sessionally at Dalhousie University and St. Mary’s University, and has facilitated a poetry workshop at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.
About Heather:
Heather Jessup’s poetry, fiction, reviews, and interviews have been published in journals across Canada and the U.S. including The Malahat Review, The Denver Quarterly, andPRISM International. Her first novel, The Lightning Field, will be published with Gaspereau Press in Fall 2011. She is completing her dissertation on contemporary Canadian literature and visual art in the English Department at the University of Toronto.
Time: Tuesday, December 6th @ 7p
Location: Room 101, The Atrium, 923 Robie St.
Admission: Free
Hydrologos is one long poem composed in five suites and a coda, and spoken through masks. It is a poem about a specific
passion, the one that always follows love: sorrow. What happens to a human being under the geologic pressure of this passion? — One calls out, and the world’s response is silence. The work of sorrowing, one learns, is the work — the endless work — of listening, by which the listener is changed. At the poem’s centre is the original lyric elegy, the myth of Orpheus,but reimagined from the perspective of Eurydike, who makes her own descent into the underworld, to rescue Death. The poem spirals out from this centre, ranging widely across literary eras and genres, engaging with ancient Greek mythtellers and philosophers; with Polish painters and Russian filmmakers; with German Romantic and contemporary Canadian poets. An astonishing debut.
-From the Publisher