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Dialogue Among Civilizations through Poetry  Oxford - 2001 Good evening and welcome to Dialogue Among Civilizations through Poetry. I would like to thank you all for attending this event, which is part of the United Nations' celebration of the Year of Dialogue. As one of the International Readings Coordinators, I am thrilled about what we are creating here as a poetic force around the world. This is a very special program. Over the coming week, hundreds of poets will be reading across the planet. It is deeply moving to think that while we are gathered here for this poetry reading, 240 other poetry events are taking place in over 100 cities worldwide—from Antarctica to Žilina; in cities as diverse as Beijing, Moscow, Belgrade, Reykjavik, Las Vegas, Calcutta, Naples, Mexico City, Sydney, and Barbados. Indeed, at this very moment, Eric Simonson is ascending Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, where, upon reaching the summit, his group will read a poem. So, what is this a...

List Price: $14.00  About the author: Erminia Passannanti ha conseguito un Ph.D. in letteratura italiana presso lo University College London (2004) con una tesi di dottorato sull'opera di Franco Fortini (Essay Writing, Lyric Diction and Poetic Translation in the Work of Franco Fortini, UCL, 2004). Ha pubblicato la monografia Poem of the Roses. Linguistic Expressionism in the Poetry of Franco Fortini (Troubador, 2004). Ha co-edito il volume di letteratura ed estetica Vested Voices (Troubador, 2006). È ideatrice e curatrice dell'antologia di poesia e scrittura saggistica, Poesia del Dissenso (Troubador, 2004, vol. I; Joker, 2007, Vol. II). Si occupa di cinema: suoi saggi editi in sillogi esegetiche sul cinema di Pasolini includono studi sull'uso dell'iconografia sacra in La ricotta. Attualmente conduce una ricerca sulla censura cinematografica e la Chiesa Cattolica presso la Brunel University (London, UK). È docente di ruolo di Lingua e Letteratura Inglese....