Studying experiments between languages by authors for whom the concepts of a mother tongue and fatherland have been denaturalized, this talk explores how poetry has provoked metamorphosis of the sound and shape of sociopolitical belonging over the course of the long twentieth century.
Jennifer Scappettone works at the confluence of the literary, visual, and scholarly arts. Her books include From Dame Quickly (Litmus, 2009), The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology & Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos, 2016), Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse (Belladonna, 2009, with Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian), SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD HEAVENBRED: 2 Acts (The Elephants, 2018), a libretto for “mixed-reality” performance, and the scholarly monograph Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia UP, 2014). Her translations of the poet-refugee from Fascist Italy Amelia Rosselli were gathered in the award-winning collection Locomotrix (U of Chicago Press, 2012). She is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago and Visiting Professor at the Université Gustave Eiffel.
Image: Emilio Villa, with Silvio Craia and Giorgio Cegna, from Idrologie: palle giranti antistrutture idrologiche, con 6 serigrafie (Roma: Eder, 1968)
Presented by the History & Forms of Lyric Lecture Series