The Xavier University Department of English

Ryan Writers Series presents

Henry Weinfield

Thursday, March 22^nd, 8:00

Conaton Learning Commons 413

Poet, critic, and translator, Henry Weinfield is a Professor in the Program for Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.  His new book is A Wandering Aramaen, from Cincinnati’s own Dos Madres Press. He is also the author of Without Mythologies: New & Selected Poems & Translations(Dos Madres Press, 2008), The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999) and of three other collections of poetry. His translations include Hesiod’s Works and Days and Theogony (University of Michigan Press) and the Collected Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé(University of California Press, 1995).   He has also written two critical studies, The Poet without a Name: Gray’s Elegy and the Problem of History(Southern Illinois UP, 1991) and The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk (University of Iowa Press, 2009). His study of the blank-verse tradition in English poetry from Milton to Stevens is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

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