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April 5, 2001
Media Contact: Barbara Saxon,
(858) 534-4618, or
POET, AUTHOR, PARIS REVIEW EDITOR TO READ APRIL 25 AT UCSD Trans-continental poet, author and editor Harry Mathews will present a reading from his works at 4:30 p.m. April 25 in the Visual Arts Performance Space at the University of California, San Diego as part of UCSD’s New Writing Series. The event is free and open to the public. A Regents’ Lecturer in the UCSD Department of Literature, Mathews, who divides his time between France and Florida, has published numerous novels, books of poetry, translations and essays. Since 1989 he has been Paris editor of The Paris Review. Mathews was associated with the New York School of poets in the 1960s and served as an editor of the journal Locus Solus. He is a member of Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), an experimental literary movement in Paris dedicated to generating literary works based on complex procedures and mathematical models. In 1995, Mathews received the America Award for literature, best work of fiction, and in 1991 received an award for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His principal works include The Conversions (1962), Singular Pleasures (1993), The Journalist (1994), and A Mid-Season Sky: Poems 1954-1991 (1992). Mathews began teaching in the United States in 1978 and his subjects have included French literature, comparative literature, and writing. Mathews’ public reading is being given in conjunction with the New Writing Series. His week-long visit as Regents’ Lecturer is sponsored by the UCSD Department of Literature. While here, Mathews also will visit classes and interact individually with students and professors. For further information contact Barbara Saxon at (858) 534-4618.
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