The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present is an experiment in omnipoetics that reaches into the deepest origins of the Americas, north and south, to redefine America and its poetries. It breaks out of deeply entrenched models that limit “American” literature to work written in English within the present boundaries of the United States. Editors Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada gather vital pieces from all parts of the Western Hemisphere and the breadth of European and Indigenous languages within: a unique range of cultures and languages going back several millennia, an experiment in what the editors call an American “omnipoetics.”
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
D.G. Wills Books
7461 Girard Avenue
San Diego, CA
Thursday, October 24 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
