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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Gertrude Stein's Reality Date + Time Tuesday, August 02, 2011 noon Location Phyllis Wattis Theater Overview Poet, essayist, translator, and publisher Hejinian is well known for her landmark collection My Life and many other books of poetry. Her collection of essays, The Language of Inquiry, includes her influential text on the work of Gertrude Stein, "Two Stein Talks." In this program, Hejinian addresses Stein’s relation to 19th-century realism in painting and literature and her shift, under the gaze of the paintings she collected, to a different sense of realism, of which Cubism might stand as one example. Participants Lyn Hejinian, poet and professor of English, UC Berkeley Admission + Ticketing Museum and program admission are free (does not include entry to The Steins Collect).

Free Tuesday Program