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Edith Covensky has recently published On The Existence Of
Love, a bi-lingual edition (Hebrew-English), and a tri-lingual
volume, Love Embraces Love (Hebrew-Arabic-English). Poet
and English translator Eduard Codish writes in his preface to On
The Existence Of Love: “Edith Covensky has written a collection
of poems almost designed to justify Andre Breton’s claim, that
love is the fusion of existence and essence. These are not the
only poles, however, she insists on. The volume is a series of
interrelated dialectics, often unresolved. This is difficult poetry
which repays our reading by giving us hard won wisdom.”
Naim Araidi, noted Druze poet, and Arabic translator of Edith
Covensky’s second new volume, Love Embraces Love, insists on
the universality of Covensky’s poetry, aesthetically sculpted with
both “penetrating might and subtle sensitivity.”
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Higuero Publishes Book
From the very beginnings of modernity until the mostly
recent philosophical spurs, the argumentative discourse of ideas
has had as a point of departure-the notion of subjectivity,
including the experience of doubt. In Racionalidad Ensayistica:
De Montaigne a Richard Rorty (Ediciones del Orto, Madrid),
Professor Francisco Javier Higuero examines the writings of
philosophers ranging from Descarte and Montaigne to William
James, Bergson, Sartre, Popper, and Richard Rorty. The result
of Higuero’s work is a valuable contribution to the knowledge
Fall 2011
Figueroa Receives Career
Development Chair Award
Victor Figueroa (Spanish) has been
awarded a Career Development Chair
Award for Associate Professors. Seven
awards were made as part of the university’s
Hebrew Poet’s New Publications
CLAS Teaching Award Recipients
Congratulations to Saeed Khan (Near
Eastern Studies), Michele Ronnick
(Classics), and Haiyong Liu (Asian
Studies), who were recently honored for
teaching excellence by the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences. Each recipient
program to support outstanding tenured faculty
members in the early stages of their careers.
Each award recipient receives an honorarium
and unrestricted research support. n
A third volume, Fuges, has been translated by Ed and Susan
Coudish. Fuges, the translators say, is an “autumnal collection of
poems, autumnal both as Keats’ season of mists and fruitfulness,
and in Stevens’ more somber auroras. Poem after poem concerns
itself, and us, with time. Edith Covensky writes about it with
originality. For her the centrality of time is night sweeping her
into its chasm, where she later wonders on its edge wishing to
curl in its womb.”
Covensky teaches Hebrew language, literature and Israeli
Studies. She has received many honors for her work including
the International Poet of Merit award in 1996 and Editor’s
Choice Poet medallion by the International Library of Poetry
in 2009. n
received a certificate of recognition
and stipend presented by Dean Robert
Thomas. n
of philosophical discourse expressed under the literary form
of essay. It should assist scholars not only in the technical
fields of philosophy (including pragmatism, phenomenology,
existentialism, conceptual analysis, and hermeneutics), but also
in the humanities and social sciences disciplines (including
literary criticism, political theory, and post-modern studies).
As Higuero mentions in the concluding pages of his work, this
kind of research is opening new approaches and development
to the discourse of ideas and philosophical thought. n
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