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SUMMARY:Memory Rehearsal presentation by Eleni Sikelianos\, Poet and Autho
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LOCATION:Student Center B Dolores Huerta Vera Cruz Room\, 9358 Mandeville 
 Lane La Jolla\, California 92093
DESCRIPTION:In 1901\, Eva Palmer abandoned her life as a privileged New Yo
 rk socialite\, moving to Paris with her lover\, the writer and salonist\,
  Natalie Barney. The two Americans became the center of a wild tangle of 
 lesbian love affairs and backyard performances based on intentional reima
 ginings of Sappho’s work and life. A chance encounter led Eva to Greece\,
  where she married Angelos Sikelianos\, a visionary poet who would become
  a Greek national hero. Celebrated American poet Eleni Sikelianos grew up
  knowing little of these illustrious ancestors\, her great grandparents\,
  who\, in the early 20th century staged a revival of the ancient Delphic 
 festivals\, convinced that it would open a path to world peace. It was no
 t until the age of 20\, on her first trip to Greece\, that she encountere
 d the breadth of their legacy. In her new book\, Memory Rehearsal\, Sikel
 ianos unearths the story of her search for these pioneering ancestors\, i
 n a text that shifts between prose\, poetry\, imaginary performance texts
 \, fiction\, and nonfiction\, with archival and family photographs.\n\nEl
 eni will read from and discuss Memory Rehearsal\, which Kirkus calls a “m
 oving family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.”\n\nSpeaker Bi
 o: Eleni Sikelianos was born into a family of tree workers\, bohemians\, 
 poets\, ne’er-do-wells\, visionaries\, and smalltime sort-of hustlers. Sh
 e is a poet\, writer\, collaborator\, and “master of mixing genres.” As a
  student of the poets of Naropa\, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider
  poetics fam\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/1e3edf1c-3bc0-434e-ba2d-4f15a
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