Richard Sacks
University College Enrichment Program
Free Back to School Preview Series for Winter/Spring 2023
Spring 2023 Enrichment Program Catalog
Thursday January 12, 2023, 7:00-8:00pm MST, on Zoom
One of the most awe-inspiring aspects of poetic language is its ability to transport the human spirit to multiple levels of time, space and meaning, often enveloping old worlds as well as new ones, yet all within a single poetic moment. Join Dr. Richard Sacks, who spent four decades at Columbia University teaching its core great books course, for a close reading of one such expansive poetic moment, the 12-line opening poem from “Map of the New World” by the Nobel Prize-winning Afro-Caribbean/American poet Derek Walcott.
Here is the text of the poem via the Poetry Foundation website.