Tuesday April 10 12:30-1:30 pm
Ferlinghetti’s French Connection: Two San Francisco Icons to Read in Lit&Lunch Series April 10
111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna at 2nd St.
415 512-8812
www.catranslation.org
Free
On Tuesday April 10th at 12:30 pm. Lit&Lunch presents a rare, free reading with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, featuring his translations of the great French poet Jacques Prévert., a forerunner of the Beats. Prévert’s shoot-from-the-hip, antiwar poems, written in the language of everyday speech, opened up French poetry in the 1940s, just as the writing of Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, and Ginsberg blasted the conventions of U.S. writing in the decades that followed.
Ferlinghetti will share the bill with another San Francisco literary icon, Jack Hirschman, the city’s current poet laureate. Hirschman is also an accomplished translator from French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Haitian Creole, to name a few.
Lit&Lunch, a program of the Center for the Art of Translation, features prominent writers, translators, and actors reading great writing from around the world. During these free events, audience members enjoy a unique literary reading while eating delicious box lunches from the A2 Café. To preorder a lunch or for more information, visit catranslation.org.
