A rising star in the poetry world, Kunin is also a literary critic and a novelist. His formally innovative work has been described as "tragicomic," and it is with a certain thrill that one realizes his poems have managed to bundle shame with hilarity, high tension with the highly ridiculous, sharp wit with ominous portents.
February 7th
6:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
6:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
Q&A Session to Follow
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Read a sample of his
work
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His first book,
Folding Ruler Star
(Fence Books, 2005), was devised as a
"value-neutral
Paradise Lost"
in which the structures of belief, shame, and
hierarchy are explored by an agile mind that draws
from Hegelian logics, myth, spatial relations and
sharp observation of the human.
Aaron Kunin grew up in Minneapolis, was educated at Brown, John Hopkins and Duke, and is an Assistant professor of 18th-century English Literature at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His work has appeared in Boston Review, FENCE, The Germ, No: A Journal of the Arts, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Poker, and elsewhere.
Aaron Kunin grew up in Minneapolis, was educated at Brown, John Hopkins and Duke, and is an Assistant professor of 18th-century English Literature at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His work has appeared in Boston Review, FENCE, The Germ, No: A Journal of the Arts, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Poker, and elsewhere.
Aaron Kunin will be introduced by Prof. Anne-Lise
François
*Peter Gizzi as quoted in The Boston
Review
