The Unsignificant Three Talks on Poetry and Picturesampampamp160is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Awardfinalist Srikanth Reddy presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2015.True to its title The Unsignificant is concerned with what its not aboutnot the logical proofs of philosophy but the affective flux of poetry. The lectures approach poetry from Homer to Gertrude Stein to Ronald Johnson obliquely refracted through images such as Brueghelampampamp8217s ampampquotLandscape with Fall of Icarusampampquot Hermann Rorschachampampamp8217s inkblots or Galileoampampamp8217s drawings of the moon. Ranging from pictorial backgrounds in visual art to portraiture and similes to the poetics of wonder The Unsignificant embarks on an unsystematic errant and eccentric tour of Western poetry and poetics from the ancient world to our continuous present.