Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays and poetry include An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, Angels & Saints, and The Life of Tu Fu. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles.

The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, Weinberger is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India.

Among his translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz’s In Light of India, Jorge Luis Borges’s Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions, and Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

The Elizabeth Bishop Poetry Lecture Series is sponsored by the English Department and made possible through a gift from Priscilla H. Rockwell and H.P. Davis Rockwell.

This event is free and open to the public.