Peter Sacks will be speaking on "The Quest of Poetry" at the University of Caen on Thursday, December 4th at 2 p.m.  This event is free and open to the public.  Please feel welcome to join the English Department in the Letters Building in the "salle du Conseil."

Peter Sacks is a poet, painter, and literary critic as well as John P. Marquand Professor of Literature at Harvard.  He has published five books of poetry:  In These Mountains (MacMillan, 1986), Promised Lands (Penguin, 1990), Natal Command (University of Chicago Press, 1997), O Wheel (University of Georgia, 2000), and Necessity: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2002).  His critical works include The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats (John Hopkins University Press, 1985) which won the Christian Gauss Award in 1985, and Woody Gwynn: An Approach to the Landscape (Texas Tech University Press, 1993).  Born in 1950, Sacks left his native South Africa to avoid fighting to support Apartheid.

His talk will be followed by a few words and a poetry reading from his wife, Jorie Graham, poet and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.