February Lecture: Micheal O'Siadhail

O’Siadhail will be reading from his most recent book Desire. Desire is a quartet of poems which addresses the pressing global concerns of our times. The book addresses the disaster as a reflection of our relationship to our damaged environment and the current ecological crisis. Fueled by reckless patterns of rapacity, we fail to curb our greed. Our need for comfort, convenience, and instant communication on the internet, which began as an idealistic dream of making knowledge universal, has resulted in an overconsumption that further harms our planet. Through an exploration of the devastations that have impacted our world in recent years, maybe we can learn again to be better forebears for the generations to come, responsible stewards of the earth we share.