Topic: Mountains and Rivers without End and Gary Snyder’s New Vision of Poetry

Lecturer: Peter O’Leary

Time: December 5, 2024, 14:30, UTC+8

Venue: Xue Hai Building, 14th Floor, Cultural Experience Room

Biography:

Peter O’Leary is a Ph.D. from The University of Chicago and currently teaches at the school of Art institute of Chicago, primarily responsible for the teaching of poetry writing and western poetic theory. He has published seven collections of poems to date, including The Hidden Eyes of Things, Earth Is Best, The Sampo and Phosphorescence of Thought. In addition, he has published two works of literary criticism: Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness (Wesleyan University Press) and Thick and Shining Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age (Columbia University Press, 2018). He has received multiple American poetry creation awards and has been honored the Edition Award from the Poetry Foundation.

Abstract:

The Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems open with a group of poems written around the transparency of mountains and rivers, and finishes with some that were written at sea. The title Riprap celebrates the work of hands, the placing of rock, and the author's first glimpse of the image of the whole universe as interconnected, interpenetrating, mutually reflecting, and mutually embracing There is no doubt that the readings of Chinese poems, with their monosyllabic step-by-step placement, their crispness-and the clatter of mule hooves-all fed this style.

Rewritten by: Xu Hanyue

Edited by: Li Tiantian, Liang Muwei

Source: School of Foreign Languages