University of Buffalo

This year’s Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and Poetics will be given by Lisa Robertson. An important focus of her talk will be 11th-13th century poetries in the Occitan language, in which she will trace an avant avant garde thinking through of literary form as embodied, affective process, linguistic difference and minority/endangered languages and worlds, and the production and circulation of social meaning. This discussion will in turn have bearing on how contemporary poetic movements refuse and elude the reduction…