![]() His six books of poetry include New and Collected Poems, 1975-2015. Jay Parini is a poet, novelist, and biographer who teaches at Middlebury College. What ensued was a seriocomic romp across the Scottish landscape that Borges insisted he must "see," all the while declaiming and reciting from the literary encyclopedia that was his head, and Jay Parini's eventual reckoning with his vocation and personal fate. ![]() About whom Jay Parini knew precisely nothing. He agreed-and that "writer" turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression and metaphysics, Jorge Luis Borges. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a "visiting Latin American writer" while he attended to business in London. In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. ![]() A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir. ![]() Īn apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work. Phoenix Books and Vermont Italian Cultural Association are proud to present an evening with Vermont author and educator Jay Parini, featuring his lastest book Borges and Me: An Encounter. ![]()
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