HOMERO ARIDJIS + ALI SMITH

HOMERO ARIDJIS is a poet on the world stage whose work has been translated into 15 languages. Aridjis is also a longtime reader of Swedenborg, and we are extremely pleased to welcome him to Swedenborg Hall. He will be reading from his new book A TIME OF ANGELS (City Lights, 2012) and from EYES TO SEE OTHERWISE (Carcanet, 2001), and will engage in a conversation with the audience.

English translations of the poems will be read by award-winning Scottish writer ALI SMITH.

The Mexican ‘Sun Poet’ and pioneering environmental activist Homero Aridjis has received two Guggenheim Fellowships and numerous awards, including the Grinzane-Cavour in Italy for best foreign book of the year and the Prix Roger Caillois from France for his poetry and fiction. President Emeritus of PEN International and former Ambassador to the Netherlands and Switzerland, Aridjis was until recently  Mexico’s Ambassador to UNESCO. (Photograph by Chloe Aridjis.)

PRAISE FOR HOMERO ARIDJIS

‘Homero Aridjis’s poems open a door into the light’—Seamus Heaney

‘A visionary poet of lyrical bliss, crystalline concentrations and infinite spaces’—Kenneth Rexroth

‘In the poetry of Homero Ardjis there is the gaze, the pulse of the poet . . . the discontinuous time of practical and rational life and the continuity of desire and death; there is the poet’s personal truth’—Octavio Paz