Alberto Blanco will offer a brief overview of his career as a poet and visual artist, focusing on his numerous artist’s books, particularly his Writing Notebooks. He will illustrate his talk with images in a specially prepared PowerPoint presentation. Broadsides created in the Printing Poetry Workshop the weekend before will be handed out to attendees of this event for free.

Alberto Blanco (Mexico City in 1951). He studied chemistry and philosophy, and earned a Master’s degree in Oriental Studies, focusing on China. He is a poet, translator, and essayist, and a well-known visual artist. Since the publication of his first book, Giros de faros, in 1979*, he has published 36 books of poetry in Mexico and eighteen more in other countries. Among the most notable is Dawn of the Senses, published by City Lights, in 1995. His work is not only extensive but also highly diverse. However, the author insists that his entire life he has been working on only three books: a book of poems, another of essays on visual arts, and a poetic. His poems have been translated into more than 20 languages. His visual work has been recognized with two major retrospectives: one dedicated to his artist’s books at The Athenaeum in La Jolla, California, in 2011; and another dedicated to his collages at the CECUT in Tijuana in 2015. In 2018, he was
named Creator Emeritus in Mexico.

*Circling Beacons, translated by John Oliver Simon and Jennifer Rathbun, Guernica World Editions, Toronto, Canadá, 2022.

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