CANCELLED: Materia Oscura: a travel through time and poetry

Carlos Villacorta (Perú 1976) will discuss his literary work as a poet and as a fiction writer using the idea of Materia Oscura or Dark Matter. Villacorta is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Maine and he published his first poetry book el grito in 2001 and since he has published three more poetry books. In 2014, he published his first novel Alicia esto es el capitalismo. Materia Oscura, title of his last poetry book, addresses the idea that dark matter surrounds in our everyday life. How this matter that accounts for 85% of the matter of the universe relates to literature? Villacorta will talk about the work of a writer and how he conveys a particular scientific approach using language to talk about social issues like war, work, immigration, and of course, love. The talk will be in English.