BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Lumen Christi Institute - ECPv6.15.9//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Lumen Christi Institute
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lumenchristi.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lumen Christi Institute
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20160313T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20161106T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20170312T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20171105T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20180311T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20181104T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171102T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171102T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T221923
CREATED:20241003T165536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260322T143200Z
UID:12378-1509640200-1509640200@lumenchristi.org
SUMMARY:A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens' Late Poems Revisited
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nAbout The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani: \nA perceptive\, enlightening biography of one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century\, as seen through his lifelong quest to find and describe the sublime in the human experience. \nWallace Stevens lived a richly imaginative life that found expression in his poetry. His philosophical questioning\, spiritual depth\, and brilliantly inventive use of language would be profound influences on poets as diverse as William Carlos Williams\, Hart Crane\, Elizabeth Bishop\, and John Ashbery. The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times\, and as the creator of a poetry which has had a profound and lasting impact on the modern imagination itself. \nStevens established his career as an executive even as he wrote his poetry\, becoming a vice president with an insurance company in Hartford\, Connecticut. His first and most influential book\, Harmonium\, was not published until he was forty-four years old. In these poems\, Stevens drew on his interest in and understanding of modernism. Over time he became acquainted with the most accomplished of his contemporaries\, Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams among them\, but his personal style remained unique. He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage\, losing himself by writing poetry in his study. Yet he had a witty\, comic\, and Dionysian side to his personality\, including long fishing (and drinking) trips to Florida with his pals and a fascination with the sun-drenched tropics. \nPeople generally know two things about Wallace Stevens: that he is a “difficult” poet and that he was an insurance executive for most of his life. Stevens may be challenging to understand\, but he is also greatly rewarding to read. Now\, sixty years after Stevens’ death\, biographer and poet Paul Mariani shows how over the course of his life\, Stevens sought out the ineffable and spiritual in human existence in his search for the sublime. \nTo view photos of Mariani’s lecture\, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. \nYou can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page\, iTunes channel\, Stitcher\, TuneIn\, ListenNotes\, Podbean\, Pocket Casts\, and Google Play Music.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2017-11-a-final-seriousness-wallace-stevens-late-poems-revisited-paul-mariani/
LOCATION:Swift Hall\, Room 106\, 1025 E 58th St\,\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lumenchristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/mariani.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR