The Sublime of Now: The Poetical Language of Federico García Lorca
Jan 20 - Feb 10 (Wednesday)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
CHRHS
$44.25
About This Activity
Twentieth-century Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca’s life was a buzzing, blooming confusion of experience and obsession. To borrow from artist Anne Truitt, “He wrote steadfastly along the nerve of his own most intimate sensitivity.” In this class, Lorca will help us find a language for love, loss, pain, grief, and transcendence through his poetry. Through his rich, transfixing, and haunting metaphors, and his deep, dark, and enigmatic imagery, we will follow his poetical language on a discovery of pain that leads to joy, of loss that leads to liberation, and of the dangers of love held within the crucible of pleasure. Husson University professor Allistair Timms guides this wild and glorious experience of Eros (the life instinct) and Thanatos (the death instinct). Required text: Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca with parallel Spanish text, translated by Martin Sorrell and D.Gareth Walters from Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780199556014. Instructor Allister Timms is a Welshman, writer, and teacher. He is the author of “The Killing Moon” and numerous published short stories. He is also an adjunct professor at Husson where he teaches literature. He is currently at work on a new novel about an ornamental hermit.
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