Her previous book of poems, 'The Golden Road,' was published by Northwestern University Press in the fall of 2012. A memoir about her husband's illness, 'Strange Relation,' was published by Paul Dry Books in 2011. Rachel Hadas is the author of many books of poetry, prose, and translations. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant in poetry, and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry. Since 1981 she has taught in the English Department of the Newark (NJ) campus of Rutgers University, and has also taught courses in literature and writing at Columbia and Princeton, as well as serving on the poetry faculty of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the West Chester Poetry Conference. Rachel Hadas (born November 8, 1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Between college and graduate school she spent four years in Greece, an experience that surfaces variously in much of her work. The presentation is free and open to the public.Rachel Hadas studied classics at Harvard, poetry at Johns Hopkins, and comparative literature at Princeton. Strange Relation snaps with bravery, intelligence, and Hadas tart, candid wisdom.'Molly Peacock'Strange Relation is a. Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301. Rachel Hadas brings a poets incisive eye to the labyrinth of dementia.'Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of Medicine in Translation and Singular Intimacies'Like an elegy, Strange Relation is about loss and grief.

His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Reina Sofia in Madrid, among others.įor more information contact Brooks Library by phone at 80 ext 0, by email at or on the web at. Since then he has been a prolific artist whose work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, on television, and in other public and private places. Shalom Gorewitz began working as an artist with video and computers after studying with Nam June Paik, Gene Youngblood, Allison Knowles, and others at California Institute of the Arts. Hardison Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters. Her awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O.B. Rachel Hadas is is the author of The Golden Road (poems), 2012, and the prose work Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry (2011). The presentation is free and open to the public. 'Strange Relation is a deeply moving, deeply personal, beautifully written exploration of how the power of grief can be met with the power of literature, and how solace can be found in the space between them.'Frank Huyler 'A poignant memoir of love, creativity and human vulnerability. Please join poet Rachel Hadas and video artist Shalom Gorewitz on Wednesday, July 29, at 7 PM, for a presentation where they will fuse poetry and digital filmmaking through a collaborative process that is not illustrative or narrative, but a kind of syncretic linking.

Strange Relation by Rachel Hadas