Meet me at the San Francisco Public Library for Miłosz centenary celebration Dec. 7
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
The centenary for Nobel poet Czesław Miłosz has been a year-long, international saga for many of us who knew him, translated him, or wrote about him – but it’s finally winding to a close this month.
Think of tomorrow night as one of your last chances to get in on the act.
On Wednesday, December 7, I will be speaking at the San Francisco Public Library for a Celebration of Czesław Miłosz – and also a celebration of An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz – from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the Latino-Hispanic Meeting Room at the library on 100 Larkin Street. The book will be for sale at the event.
Here’s what’s going to happen: the host of a weekly KUSF radio show Zbigniew Stanczyk will be interviewing me and one of the Polish poet’s earliest translators, Peter Dale Scott, poet, author, and former Canadian diplomat in Warsaw.
But here’s the deal: Pan Stanczyk also knew Miłosz, and there’s a few questions I’d like to ask him, too.
What’s more, I’m sure the audience will have a few questions to ask us about the renowned poet who spent four decades of his long life in Berkeley – and I’m sure some of those in the room also knew Miłosz, so I hope we’ll have some time to hear from them, too.
It will all be very democratic. With luck, even Miłosz himself will have a say. I have some video clips to play, if I can get the whole techno-thing working right.
So come along for a evening of readings, recollections, and books. It should be fun.
Last call.
Postscript on 12/7: And a fine event it was. As you can see from Caria Tomczykowska‘s cellphone photo at right, I spoke in the shadow of giants.
And it was indeed very democratic!
