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Image via the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters Facebook page.<\/p><\/div>\n
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- Dan Chiasson, reviewer and poet over at the New Yorker and professor at Wellesley College, examines Emily Dickinson’s “envelope poems,”<\/a> fragments of verse the poet scrawled on scraps of paper.<\/li>\n
- A. R. Gurney’s play “Ajax,”<\/a> which closed earlier last month, concerns a adjunct college professor and a student in her Greek drama class who develop Sophocles’ “Ajax” into a contemporary performance. The interesting part? The student’s original goal is a study of post-traumatic stress disorder among American soldiers. Sound familiar?<\/li>\n
- Did you know the Z-Closet Collection in Houghton Library at Harvard<\/a> contains the death mask of Henry James cast by his brother, American psychologist William James, and a lock of hair from English Romantic poet William Wordsworth’s very head? Maybe Core can, ahem, borrow them.<\/li>\n
- Petrarch’s Canzoniere<\/em> may now boast a Catalan translation<\/a>, provided by poet Miquel Desclot. The poet also plans on publishing a volume of five Shakespeare plays in translation.<\/li>\n
- The Huntington is currently showing Real American Places: Edward Weston and Leaves of Grass<\/em>,<\/a> an exhibition of 25 photographs intended to illuminate a deluxe volume of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass<\/em>. On view alongside these photographs are original items related to Whitman. Closes March 20, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Edward WestonWoodlawn Plantation House, Louisiana, 1941, gelatin silver print, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents<\/p><\/div>\n
Feeling better? Now get out there and do your best (and send any news of interest that you find along the way to core@bu.edu)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Happy December, scholars! Take a break from perishing under the weight of final papers and take a look at this week’s round-up of links. Our Natural Science scholars will be interested to know that archaeologists recently discovered a 7,300-year-old human fingerprint, the oldest in the region, on a shard of pottery. Dan Chiasson, reviewer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244,477,6590],"tags":[48685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- A. R. Gurney’s play “Ajax,”<\/a> which closed earlier last month, concerns a adjunct college professor and a student in her Greek drama class who develop Sophocles’ “Ajax” into a contemporary performance. The interesting part? The student’s original goal is a study of post-traumatic stress disorder among American soldiers. Sound familiar?<\/li>\n