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In-person Arts & Culture

galáxias Book Launch

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
3:30pm to 5:00pm

Part of: Edmonton Poetry Festival

University of Alberta (Rutherford Library South)

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Organized by: Edmonton Poetry Festival

April
9

Join in on the Edmonton launch of the first English translation of galáxias, by the renowned Brazilian avant-gardist Haroldo de Campos.

This brilliant work (composed over two decades and published in 1984) charts a linguistic odyssey across time and space, from Homer’s ancient Greece to the 1950s Beat Poets. The text’s 50 galactic cantos incorporate literary allusion, citation, and words and phrases in at least a dozen languages, making galáxias a formidable experiment in polyglot poetry that prefigures spoken word.

Join the translator, Odile Cisneros, and guests Michael O’Driscoll (Professor) and Ryan Fitzpatrick (Writer-in-Residence) from the U of A’s Department of English and Film Studies, for a panel discussion and reading.

A brief presentation of the companion website by Francerlândio Cruz (MA Candidate) will follow the reading. Moderated by Edmonton’s Poet Laureate Alice Major.

This event will be followed by light refreshments & book signing.

Venue Note: This event will take place in Henderson Hall, which is in Rutherford Library South 1-17.

Registration: No registration required!

University of Alberta (Rutherford Library South)

11204 89 Avenue
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J4