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3/24/08

SLU Piskor Lecture April 8, On Latin American Poetry, Ecology

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Professor of Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Steven F. White will deliver the Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecture, "Trees and Rivers: Poetry and Ecology in Latin America," on Tuesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

There is also an exhibition in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, in conjunction with the lecture. "Seven Trees: Digital Photographs" by Wilmor López (Nicaragua) and "Confluence (The Imperial River): A Video and Photographs" by Mariana Matthews (Chile) are on exhibition through April 12.

In addition to the Piskor Lectureship, White conducted research through a Fulbright Senior Specialists project, an ecocritical study, in English, of Nicaraguan poet Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002) and Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), with a collection of photographs illustrating the different species of trees and specific rivers that these poets describe in their work.

White is the author of the 2004 book El mundo más que humano en la poesía de Pablo Antonio Cuadao: un estudio ecocrítico ("The More-Than-Human-World in the Poetry of Pablo Antonio Cuadra: An Ecocritical Study"), presenting Cuadra's poetry from the perspective of ecocriticism, which is the study of literature in relation to the physical environment. He also edited and translated Poets of Nicaragua and Birth of the Sun: Selected Poems of Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1935-1985) and is co-translator of a new bilingual edition of Cuadra's Seven Trees Against the Dying Light.

A graduate of Williams College with a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, White joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1987. He is the author of several books of poetry and has published multimedia pieces combining spoken word, music with poems and translations. In addition, White has edited and translated several volumes of poetry by authors including Rubén Darío and Federico García Lorca.

The Piskor Faculty Lectureship was established in 1979 to encourage original and continued research among St. Lawrence faculty members, to recognize and honor distinguished scholarship and to afford the opportunity for faculty to share their learning with the academic community.

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More: Professor Steven White, from the Modern Languages and Literatures Web site

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