Sophocles

Presentació del volum VI de les Tragèdies, d'Eurípides que inclou les obres Les troianes i Ifigenia entre els taures. Forma part de la col·lecció Bernat Metge.
Amb Joan Carles Girbés, director editorial de Som Ara Llibres; Raül Garrigasait, editor de la Bernat Metge; Jordi Pàmias, membre del Consell Directiu de la Bernat Metge; Adrià Pinyol, traductor del volum que es presenta (gamoia)… (more)

Thursday, October 23, 6 PM Seminary Co-op Bookstore 5751 S. Woodlawn Avenue Phone: 773.752.4381 events@semcoop.com

What do we fear? Hard to say. Or, vaguely, disease, decrepitude, dissipation. Whatever it is, we work to keep fear in abeyance. Or we repress it, suffering the consequence of our anxiety to face it. What to do? Write something. In the elegant poems in Michael Autrey’s first full-length collection, our fear is a mysterious remnant disturbingly augured in fizzling dream fragments, birds’ predatory cunning, and the glorious extravagances of great art. And these limn for us what we fear most, “a future, in which we are scanned like a text.”

Michael Autrey was raised in Oregon, attended schools in France, Greece and his home town of Portland. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He has lived and worked in Prague, Geneva, New York, Washington D.C., rural Paraguay and south India. He resides in Chicago. -- John Tipton's Surfaces (2004) and his translation of Sophocles' Ajax (2008) were both published by Flood Edtions. A new collection, Paramnesia, and a translation of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes are forthcoming from Flood.

Seven Against Thebes: Three Choral Passages: An Excerpt

Whom did gods so admire at their altars? Who more honored in assemblies than this Oedipus, who freed Thebes of the Sphinx? That sound mind lost its bearing in deviant marriage, in wrong thoughts. Such appalling acts-- gouged his eyes with his own patricidal hand. To his children he fed malignance, the bitter tang of binding curse: Take in hand what you inherit. Fast Furies will finish it.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Seven+Against+Thebes%3A+Three+Choral+Passa...

John Tipton is the founder and director of Chicago Poetry Project. His poems have appeared in LVNG, Poetry New York, Nedge, and elsewhere. His “52 Surfaces” was published as a broadside in the LVNG Supplementals series, and Cello Entry Chapbooks published clause automata. His books Surfaces and Ajax are available from Flood Editions. He is the publisher of Verge Books and lives in Chicago.

Location: Street: Seminary Co-op Bookstore Additional: 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave. City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60637 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Sophocles, Antigone.

If you're interested in approaching the pervasive questions of today with a sophisticated understanding of their philosophical origins, this book group is for you. The first of three events, taking place on November 8th, will be a spirited discussion of politics, morality and kinship. Readings include Sophocles' Antigone and contemporary feminist Judith Butler's book, Antigone's Claim. For more information, or to see the questions which will be discussed, go to http://www.shimer.edu/shimerinabox/kinship.cfm. (Future book club meetings will include a discussion on parental memories, and one on Darwin, language and lingodroids.) (ytrewq)… (more)