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Reference Page: http://www.literarytraveler.com/tours/key_west_tour.aspx Printed on 9/10/2010 4:39:06 AM |
| Location | Key West, Florida |
| Dates | January 10 -15, 2010 |
| Fees |
Accommodatiation Fees US $1995 pp single supplement: US $700 Fee includes readings, accommodation, two meals a day, discussions, walking tours, talks, excursions, and admissions. This trip has been priced in US$. Once youve made a reservation, we will invoice you in US$ (which is the fixed cost). As a Canadian company, we will also accept CAD$ at our current exchange rate at the time of payment(s). Please Note: once final payment is made the currency exchange rate is guaranteed and there will be no currency exchange adjustments. |
| Accomodations |
La Concha Hotel, a luxury hotel in historic Key West (5 nights) |
| Authors | |
| Discussion Leader | Rosemary Gould currently homeschools three small children in Charlottesville, Virginia. In her spare time she leads discussions of poetry for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. One more folded sunset, still quite warm, in January, in Key West, sounds to her like the thing itself. |
Edges, islands, a beach with a view... Poets are often drawn to landscapes where different kinds of being meet and separate, where people experience their true solitude. Key West has been such a place for more than a century. Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens both saw it as a profoundly meaningful borderland, one where questions about identity and geography, life, death and creativity become richer and more mysterious. Mark Strand also, influenced by both of these poets, explores the edges of consciousness, and his dark, plain-spoken work will help to illuminate the works of the earlier two.
The Key West Literary Seminar, which has been drawing lovers of literature to this small island in the subtropics for more than a quarter century, will celebrate 60 years of American poetry this January 7 10.
And Classical Pursuits will piggyback on to this venerable institution with its own in-depth exploration of selected poems of Bishop and Stevens, who called the island city home, and of former US Poet Laureate Mark Strand, who will be present at the Key West Literary Seminar.
A good seminar is rather like a group of jazz musicians improvising freely together: both exciting and relaxing. Well also visit literary landmarks, see a vintage movie set in Key West, and have plenty of time left for whatever we choose.
We are the only group we know of that offers the opportunity to travel through both space and time to destinations like Dantes Italy, Hemingways Paris, or Dickens London. We explore great works of literature in the places where they are set to help us see the world through the eyes of those we read about. At the same time, we inevitably discover universal ideas and experience that transcend time and place. What makes our travel special is the balance of in-depth discussion of illuminating readings, easy guided walks to immerse ourselves in the cultural and natural history of a place, informal talks about the context of our inquiry, generous free time, and exceedingly convivial company. And, of course, exceptional cuisine.
With Classical Pursuits, you will not compromise the spontaneity, flexibility and sense of personal discovery you seek in your own private travels only the logistical details.
As children we constantly wondered Why? and So what? Return to the big questions now, in convivial conversation about great books, music, and art.
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Classical Pursuits provides learning vacations with a difference.