“Any Minute Now, the World Overflows its Border!”: Anarchist Modernism and the Yiddish Poetry of Peretz Markish

Anna Elena Torres will present her research on anarchist diasporism and the experimental work of Yiddish writer Perets Markish. The talk will focus on questions of radical temporality in Der fertsikyeriker man (The Man of Forty Years), an epic poem smuggled out of the USSR before his arrest at Stalin's order. Torres is the Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.