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“Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire”

March 4, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Kay Redfield Jamison
Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire
Saturday, March 4th @ 3PM
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In her magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell, whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters. Please join us for a reading and discussion.
Kay Redfield Jamison is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as an honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet MindNight Falls Fast, and Touched with Fire. She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Jamison, the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards, is a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow.
This event is co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library

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Date:
March 4, 2017
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm