Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
dal 2/3/2003 al 3/3/2003
Segnalato da
2/3/2003
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
SFAI Lecture Hall, San Francisco
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry draws its reader into a profound act of rearrangement of human presence in the phenomenal world. Berssenbrugge assigns all sensations value--the physical responses by which we experience moisture, a horizon, a man, a woman, love, suffering, a child, a piece of quartz.
March 3, 2003 7:30 pm
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry draws its reader into a profound act of rearrangement of human presence in the phenomenal world. Berssenbrugge assigns all sensations value--the physical responses by which we experience moisture, a horizon, a man, a woman, love, suffering, a child, a piece of quartz.
Her books include The Heat Bird (Burning Deck), Empathy (Station Hill), Sphericity, Endocrinology, and Four Year Old Girl (the last three all from Kelsey Street Press). She ahs collaborated on artist books with Richard Tuttle and Kiki Smith, and on theatre works with Frank Chin, Blondell Cummings, Tan Dun, Shi Zhen Chen and Alvin Lucier.
Born in Beijing, she grew up in Massachusetts. She has taught at Brown University, Naropa Institute, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Having lived in rural New Mexico for twenty-five years, she now also lives in New York City, with artist Richard Tuttle and their daughter. Her latest collection, Nest, designed and with cover art by Richard Tuttle, is forthcoming in early 2003 from Kelsey Street Press. Berssenbrugge’s lecture is co-sponsored by the San Francisco State University Poetry Center.
Admission: $6 general; $4 members, alumni, seniors, students, and disabled; SFAI students free. No advance tickets are available for SFAI Lecture Hall events.
SFAI Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street,
San Francisco, CA
(415)749-4563