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Boston poet
Richard
Martin
will read from his new books
Techniques in the
Neighborhood of Sleep,
and
Buffoons in
the Gene Pool
Saturday,
September 10, 7PM
“The lines of Richard
Martin’s poems have the crisp offhandedness of wire brushes deftly applied to
drum skin. Indeed, they are musical, sensational and breed philosophical
considerations. The lines seem to want to slip by unassumingly but that you
pause on them because the words they are written in recall so appropriately a
world you know––a world that they illuminate and thus add to, rather than
describe. Whole poems work that way, with a power and fascination that seem to
have come from nowhere, or just around the corner.” Bill
Berkson
Richard
Martin is a past recipient of a
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry and founder of
The Big Horror Poetry Series. His previous books include Dream of Long Headdresses:
Poems from a Thousand Hospitals; White Man Appears on Southern California
Beach; Modulations; Sideways;
Strip Meditation; Altercations
in the Quiet Car; and Under the Sky
of No Complaint.
_________________________ Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
RAE ARMANTROUT
will read from
her
new book
PARTLY:
New and Selected Poems,
2001-2015
Saturday, October
8,
7pm
Rae Armantrout’s poetry comprises one of the most refined and
visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years. These
potent, compact meditations on our complicated times reveal
her observant sensibility, lively intellect, and emotional complexity. This
generous volume charts the evolution of Armantrout’s mature, stylistically
distinct work. In addition to 25 new poems, there are selections from her books
Up To Speed, Next
Life, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle
Award winning volume
Versed, Money Shot,
Just Saying, and
Itself.
Including some of her most brilliant pieces, Partly
affirms Armantrout’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most innovative
writers.
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“Hoopskirts, star jasmine, synchronized swimming, Russian icons, a
ceramic fish face, electrons and photons: in these poems, everything is interconnected,
thought through, deeply felt and expressed in the most precise and necessary words. Rae Armantrout
is one of our most inventive and magnetic poets, and she never disappoints: with inspired patience,
she embraces the strangeness of our familiar world and refashions it into something new and
utterly transporting.” —Lydia Davis, author of
Can't and Won't.
RAE ARMANTROUT is Professor Emerita of writing at the University of
California, San Diego, and the author of thirteen previous books of poetry.
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Cincinnati poet
Norman
Finkelstein
will
read from his new book
THE RATIO OF REASON TO MAGIC:
New & Selected Poems
Saturday, December 17,
7pm
“From
their earliest setting out, the poems of Norman Finkelstein have fetched a new
Vision, not only mapping but marking the Vision with supernal inscription, the signature
of Heaven as it were. And theirs is not a cold heaven. Nothing in these poems
is imposed or rehearsed. What is permanently remarkable here is that the work
goes forward to imagine what no American poetry has imagined before: a society
of Vision. In the later poems, we actually experience the vivid--sometimes
harrowing, sometimes hallowed--exchanges that truly, truly are a nation of
nothing but poetry. Finkelstein has thus honored more promises than we ever
dared to own.”
—DONALD
REVELL
Norman Finkelstein teaches modern and contemporary American literature,
Jewish American literature, literary theory, and creative writing at Xavier
University in Cincinnati. His books of poetry include Restless Messengers;
Passing Over; Scribe; and the three-volume serial poem Track.
He has also published five books of literary criticism: The Utopian Moment
in Contemporary American Poetry; The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish
Tradition and Contemporary Literature; Not One of Them In Place:
Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity; Lyrical Interference:
Essays on Poetics; and On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred In
Contemporary American Poetry. Recent poems, essays and reviews have
appeared such journals as LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; Contemporary
Literature; Cincinnati Review; Rain Taxi and Hambone.
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