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Running the Dusk: A Poetry Reading with Christian Campbell

Running the Dusk: A Poetry Reading with Christian Campbell

5/13/2013
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Top of the Hop
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars, Performances
Bahamian/Trinidadian poet Christian Campbell's debut collection Running the Dusk won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was described as a "bravura performance." The Guardian deemed Campbell "one to watch."

Praise for Running the Dusk: "(Campbell's) poems don't address the obvious in a tumultuous, beautiful landscape of hearts and minds, personal and public rituals, but his voice dares to take a step beyond, to bridge the diaspora of the spirit. If you're holding Running the Dusk in your hands, you are lucky to be facing the gutsy work of a long-distance runner who possesses the wit and endurance, the staying power of authentic genius." -Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Global Distinguished Professor of English at NYU

"A truly auspicious debut by a brilliant young writer of wide-open ear and versatile tongue.... In the black diaspora Campbell writes from and about, 'all angels have afros' and all poems are song. Running the Dusk is deep-souled, keen-eyed, knowing, honed, gorgeous. This is a heralding book we'll be talking about for a long time to come." -Elizabeth Alexander, Obama's Inaugural poet and Chair of African American Studies at Yale University

Free and open to the public. Reception and book signing to follow.
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For more information, contact:
Adrienne Clay
603-646-3397
Permanent URL to this event: https://aaas.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=23691

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