[New York]

Karen Emmerich at European Literature Night
May 12, 2018, 7:00 pm
at Bohemian National Hall

As a part of European Literature Night, Karen Emmerich will be reading from Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo (tr. Karen Emmerich). Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo  Before Lyricism includes six book-length poems. For Eleni Vakalo, these poems formed a larger, additive whole. Uniting these poems under a single cover, Before Lyricism allows us to see the complex web of intertextual relations that link them, and to discover the richness and vitality of one of modern Greek poetry’s seminal figures. Eleni Vakalo (1921–2001) was a Greek poet, art critic, and art historian. Vakalo’s training as an art historian pushed her to initiate new poetic uses of the page, drawing on her knowledge of modern and contemporary art to rethink the role of the visual in the printed text. With her husband, she founded the Vakalo School of Arts and Design in 1958. She was awarded the Greek State Award for Poetry and the Essay Award from the Academy of Athens. This reading will be held on the 2nd floor of the CCNY Library. More info here. RSVP here.