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11/22/04

SLU PROFESSOR'S BOOK ON NICARAGUAN POET CELEBRATED

CANTON – The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence 
University will celebrate the publication of the book El mundo más que humano 
en la poesía de Pablo Antonio Cuadra: un estudio ecocrítico (The 
More-Than-Human-World in the Poetry of Pablo Antonio Cuadra: An Ecocritical Study), by 
Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Steven F. White with an event 
on Friday, December 3, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young 
Library. 
	White will speak about the book at the event, which is open to the 
public, free of charge.
	The book presents the poetry of major Nicaraguan poet Pablo Antonio 
Cuadra (1912-2002) from the perspective of ecocriticism, which is the study 
of literature in relation to the physical environment. 
	White edited and translated Poets of Nicaragua and Birth of the Sun: 
Selected Poems of Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1935-1985). He is also the author 
of Modern Nicaraguan Poetry: Dialogues with France and the United States. 
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. A former 
Fulbright Fellow, he has also translated and edited anthologies of poetry 
from Chile and Brazil. With Greg Simon, he translated Federico García Lorca's 
Poet in New York. Other books by White include a translation of the 
screenplay for Cruz e Sousa: The Banished Poet by Brazilian filmmaker 
Sylvio Back; the anthology Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's 
Sacred Vine and Fire that Engenders Fire, a book of poems in a bilingual 
edition.

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