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Laurie Sheck
Poet and Novelist and author of "A Monster's Notes"
Monday, June 29 at 8pm ET
"Utterly astonishing and not to be missed." Kirkus Review
We at the Reading Odyssey have invited the poet and author, Laurie Sheck to come speak to us.
We have invited her to speak because her wonderful new novel, A Monster's Notes, touches on important topics for the Reading Odyssey. The monster - Frankentstein - actually reads many of the great books and ideas as he tries to figure out who he is.
Laurie has an impressive biography including a Guggenheim Fellowship. This is her first novel after authoring several collections of poetry.
See the reviews and her biography below.
Phil
Kirkus Review
Celebrated NYC poet Sheck richly reimagine the oft-retold Frankenstein in her defiantly original debut novel, which posits that the fabricated human was Mary Shelley’s chance acquaintance, not her creation, and has lived on into the present day.
The “monster” built by overreaching scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein has been kept alive by his hunger to understand why he was made, how his maker could have abandoned him and the role his unique history plays in the larger scheme of the known universe. In a huge gathering of fragments, somewhat reminiscent of Guy Davenport’s eclectic and erudite fictional collages, Sheck fashions a fascinating dual narrative. Mary Shelley’s fictionalized story unfolds in communications from her mother, feminist intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft, to her father, novelist-philosopher William Godwin; and in Mary’s own diary, notes and correspondence—replete with anguished discussions of her marriage to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—with such soul mates as her half-sister Fanny and her stepsister Claire Clairmont, Lord Byron’s mistress and herself a gifted writer. The other narrative comprises the autodidact monster’s own “notes” on such topics relevant to his own abandoned state as polar exploration, the space-time continuum, robotics and other re-engineerings of natural states, and the dramatization of conflicts between appearance and reality in China’s epic 18th-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Initially abstruse and puzzling, this brilliant fiction gathers both seamless coherence and immense power as its elements draw together, punctuated by the sentient monster’s appeal to his irresponsible maker: “When you first began to make me, didn’t you set out on a course you couldn’t possibly understand?”
Utterly astonishing and not to be missed.
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Laurie Sheck
Laurie Sheck was born in the Bronx, New York. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Captivity(Knopf, 2007), which interacts, in part, with the journals of Gerard Manley Hopkins; Black Series (2001); The Willow Grove (1996), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Io at Night (1990); and Amaranth (1981).
Her poems have been included in two volumes of Best American Poetry and three volumes of The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. She is the editor of the anthology Poem a Day, Volume 2 (Zoland, 2003). She is also the author of the hybrid work A Monster's Notes (Knopf, 2009), which re-examines the un-named monster in Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein.
About Sheck's work, the poet C.K. Williams has said, "Rarely, if ever, has the contemporary lyric been both so pure and so informed with varieties of experience." The poet Rita Dove has said, "Laurie Sheck is a modern shaman...'Listen carefully.' she whispers; and you do, because your life depends on it."
Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. She has also been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Laurie Sheck has been a member of the creative writing faculty at Princeton University, and currently teaches in the M.F.A. program at the New School. She lives in New York City.
Selected Bibliography
Amaranth (Knopf, 1981)
Io at Night (1990)
The Willow Grove (1996)
Black Series (2001)
Captivity (2007)
A Monster's Notes (2009)
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NYU Center for Ancient Studies and Reading Odyssey
NYU Center for Ancient Studies and Reading Odyssey are hosting this event.
Reading Odyssey is a nonprofit dedicated to helping
adults reengage their intellectual curiosity through reading and discussing
some of the best books and ideas.
The Reading Odyssey is sponsored by Citrix Online, their teleconferencing division, HiDefConferencing, and Constant
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John Dowling at Harvard University, John Marincola at Florida State University, Barry Schwartz at Swarthmor College and
Robert Strassler, an independent scholar.
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