Bilingual Reading: Un mar en madrugada/A Sea at Dawn

A bilingual reading of the latest anthology of poetry by Silvia Guerra Díaz, Un mar en madrugada/A Sea at Dawn, with the poet and her translator Jesse Lee Kercheval, Zona Gale Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Guerra Díaz is an acclaimed Uruguayan poet and a member/associate researcher of the National Academy of Letters of Uruguay. She started publishing poetry in the difficult first years of the transition to democracy in Uruguay and is considered one of the most innovative and powerful poetic voices from Latin America. Guerra is the author of nine books of poetry, two books of prose, and six books of criticism.

For more information, contact María Rosa Olivera-Williams.

Cosponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (College of Arts and Letters), Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (Hesburgh Libraries), and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.