Internationally acclaimed scholar Marjorie Perloff will give a lecture entitled "The Vienna Paradox: Some Refugee Reflections" at the University of Georgia on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in room 265 of Park Hall.  The event is part of the English department?s Lanier Series and is free and open to the public.

Marjorie Perloff is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Stanford University.  Her books include 21st Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics" (2002); Wittgenstein?s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996); Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1992); The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (1986); and The Poetics of Indeterminancy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981).  She is also author of book-length studies of Robert Lowell and Frank O?Hara, and three collections of essays on poetry, art and music: The Dance of the Intellect (1985); Poetic License (1990); and Poetry On and Off the Page (1998).

So influential is Perloff?s work that most of her books have the distinction of remaining in print to this day, many of them reprinted by publishers other than the original publishers.  She has served extensively on editorial boards of journals, both literary and academic.  Her advocacy of radical contemporary poetry and poetics has had an impact far beyond academia.