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By invitation of the
Center for Writers & Translators and the
Department of Comparative Literature &
English, Jeffrey Greene and Ralph Petty will
present their new book, no. 20 in the Cahiers
Series, Shades of the Other Shore.
The two, writer and
artist, share rural American beginnings, but
have since discovered a new life in France, in
sparsely populated French areas of Burgundy
and the Ardèche, respectively. Their cahier
offers a deep mapping of their adopted
regions: Greene’s sequence of sketches and
poems explores imagined correspondences
between personal and historical ghosts tied to
the seasons; Petty's watercolours record a
journey to the source of a local river. The
result is a rich artistic translation, through
their American sensibilities, of the
landscapes of their chosen homes.
Jeffrey Greene is the
author of four poetry collections, one volume
of memoirs, and two nature books. He directs
Creative Writing at AUP. Ralph Petty’s book of
drawings, Démons Quotidiens, with
Canadian writer Nancy Huston, was published in
2011. He is Professor of Drawing and Painting
at AUP where he is also the University Curator
and Gallery Director. |
