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English Department William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium

William Stobb, professor of creative writing, reads poems from his publication

William Stobb, professor of creative writing, will read poems from his publication, You are Still Alive, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Friday Nov. 15 in Wimberly 104. Please see the attached flyer.
 
The book has received excellent reviews. Here is one such review:
 
Each poem in You Are Still Alive introduces itself with wistful, comic nihilism, but grows into a compassionate, fearless friend. It's as though the reader had been dropped into the mind of a loving, funny, humble, infinitely generous, nimble-minded Buddhist monk brought up on classic science fiction. The monk's musings honor the marvelous strangeness of each passing moment, never losing sight of the yawning maw of the dubious future. His contemplations are both heartening and sobering. The poems' animated cosmic hospitality bring our greatest and smallest concerns into perfectly calibrated relation as they ponder consciousness, technology, freedom, the future, the worldly, how to lead a virtuous life without being an annoying prig, how flawed and destructive humans are, how to be inventively fair-minded in at least five dimensions, and what life forms might come after us, stumbling on the ruins of our so-called civilization. 
         Amy Gerstler, author of Ghost Girl, Bitter Angel, and Scattered at Sea

When

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  • 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, 2019

Where

104 Wimberly Hall

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University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Wimberly Hall

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Lei Zhang at 608.785.6938 or lzhang@uwlax.edu.

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