"Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence", a conversation with author Homero Aridjis

"Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence", by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of recent poems. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, Mexico’s oppressed, female saints, writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia, and naked angels in the metro. We find tributes to Goya and Heraclitus, denunciations of drug traffickers and political figureheads, and unforgettable imagined landscapes. Homero will be joined by Rubén Gallo, the Walter S Carpenter Jr. Professor of Latin American Literature at Princeton University and Daniel Shapiro, Distinguished Lecturer of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures at The City College of New York, CUNY, and editor of the magazine Literature and Arts of the Americas. Poems will be read in English by the actor Michael Wiener.