227. The Sangam of Poetry with Nature

BIC TALKS

Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Whiting and United Artists foundations.

Gander has most recently published Twice Alive: An Ecology of Intimacies (with an essay by N. Manu Chakravarthy).

Gander, who taught at Harvard and Brown University, translates books by poets from Spain, Latin America, and Japan. Pulitzer winning poet Forrest Gander reads from his collection, Twice Alive: An Ecology of Intimacies, followed by the screening of a film on poetry and interaction with the audience.

This episode of BIC Talks is an adaptation of a live event that took place in February 2022.

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