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 Friday,
April 11, 2003
Royce
Hall 314
UCLA
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9:00
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Check-in |
| 9:20
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Welcoming
Remarks
Victoria Steele,
UCLA |
| 9:25 |
Session
1: Poets read and discuss the poems of Edgar Bowers
Moderator: Stephen Yenser, UCLA
Robert Mezey: "The Stoic: for Laura Von
Courten," "An Afternoon at the Beach," and "The Mountain Cemetery"
Leslie Monsour: "Punished Happiness": Themes
of Change and Loss in "Amor Vincit Omnia" and "The Falls"
David Sanders: "In Defense of Poetry"
Timothy Steele: "Mary"
Helen Pinkerton Trimpi: "The Prince"
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| 10:50 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Session
2: Scholars discuss the poetry of Edgar Bowers
Moderator: Thomas Wortham, UCLA
Kenneth Fields: Le Songe Intérieur: Edgar
Bowers and the Parnassians
Gordon Harvey: "What Time Provides"
Douglas L. Peterson: "How Shall My Generation Tell
Its Story?"
Steven Shankman: "That You May Have My Witness in
Your Poem": Reflections on Valéry, the Symbolist Tradition,
and Bowers's Later Blank Verse
Robert B. Shaw: The Art of the Sequence: "Autumn
Shade"
David Yezzi: Edgar Bowers and Allen Tate |
| 12:40 |
Lunch
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| 1:40 |
Session
3: Friends of Edgar Bowers discuss his life and poetry
Moderator: Christopher Baswell,
UCLA
Barbara Bundy: Remembering Edgar Bowers and the
Years of Friendship with Elroy L. Bundy: 1967-1975
Turner Cassity: "Autumn Shade" in situ: Bowers in
Stone Mountain, and "Richard"
Dick Davis: Edgar Bowers and England
Suzanne Doyle: "Inviting a Friend to Supper"
Joshua Mehigan: "Introduction to Poetry"
Kevin Smith: "Intelligence Perfecting the Mute Keys":
Edgar Bowers and Music
Wesley Trimpi: Brief Reminiscences |
| 3:30 |
Break |
| 3:40 |
Session
4: The Edgar Bowers Archive and Exhibition
Moderator: Victoria Steele, UCLA
Kevin Durkin: View of the Relics
Joshua Odell: It Must Have Been the Buddha in Him
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| 4:25 |
Closing
Remarks
Victoria Steele,
UCLA |
| 4:30 |
Reception
in Special Collections |
