Marjorie Perloff in conversation with Rosanna Warren about her new biography Max Jacob: A Life in Art

October 14th, 6 pm to 7:15 pm EST

Marjorie Perloff is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Emerita at Stanford University. Her books include The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981), The Futurist Moment:Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (1986) Wittgenstein's Ladder (1996), The Vienna Paradox (2004), Differentials: Poetry,Poetics, Pedagogy, which won the Robert Penn Warren Prize for literary criticism in 2005, and Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2016). She is a former Vice President of the ALSCW.

Rosanna Warren is Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Ghost in a Red Hat (2011) and So Forth (2020).She has published a book of literary criticism and edited a volume of essays about translation, and has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New England Poetry Club, among others. She is a former President of the ALSCW. Her biography of Max Jacob will be published in October 2020. 

A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent out to ALSCW members a week to ten days before the event.