Patty Cafferatta signs and discusses Tales of the Biggest Little City in the World\: A Collection of Patty Cafferata’s Columns on Reno\, NV\, Volume III.
About the Author\:
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T183347Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111126T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111126T200000Z UID:http://www.sundancebookstore.com/event/vince-j-juaristi-back-bizkaia-basque-american-memoir URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.sundancebookstore.com/event/vince-j-juaristi-back-bizkaia-basque-american-memoir SUMMARY:Vince J. Juaristi - Back to Bizkaia\: A Basque-American Memoir DESCRIPTION:Vince J. Juaristi signs Back to Bizkaia\: A Basque-American Memoir.
About the Book\:
Nevada sheep rancher Joe Juaristi spoke for years about making a trip back to the Spanish Basque Country that he left sixty years earlier\, but each time the subject came up the discussion evolved into a family debate about the scope and members of the journey. Finally Joe's son\, Vince\, secretly resolved to organize the trip that his father wanted and needed--the two of them\, traveling alone\, making a quiet reunion with Joe's twin sister\, who suffers from Alzheimer's\, visiting other aging siblings and friends\, and recounting the places that formed Joe's memories of his youth.
Back to Bizkaia is part travel book\, part memoir of two men exploring their mutual roots and their unique father-son bond. The narrative intertwines an engaging account of the contemporary Basque Country with Joe's experiences as an immigrant making his way in a new country and Vince's memories of growing up in a close Basque-American community in the American West. This is a book about Basques and their American families\, but on another level it is every immigrant's story of return to a beloved homeland.
About the Author\:
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T183347Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111201T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111201T013000Z UID:http://www.sundancebookstore.com/event/poetry-reading-steven-nightingale-golden-pilgrimage URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.sundancebookstore.com/event/poetry-reading-steven-nightingale-golden-pilgrimage SUMMARY:Poetry Reading \:\: Steven Nightingale - The Golden Pilgrimage DESCRIPTION:Steven Nightingale presents his new book of sonnets The Golden Pilgrimage.
For poet Steven Nightingale\, the sonnet is not just a poetic form\, it is the form of our dreams\: the dream that poetry can take the mind home to original beauties\; that the life of each of us is bound to a joy at the midmost of the world\; that language can tease a bright reality from the catastrophes of the day\; that we may learn to change ourselves\, in hopes of becoming hidden sidekicks of light\, useful\, practical\, bemused.
Steven Nightingale is the author of two critically acclaimed novels\, The Lost Coast and Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon\, and several books of poetry including The Light in them is Permanent\, Planetary Tambourine\, Cartwheels and Cinnamon Theologies.
“There is a natural ecstatic in Steven Nightingale\, whom one might
situate on a scale somewhere between Emerson and Rumi. And there is also
a craftsman--with a jeweler's or a watchmaker's meticulousness---who
wants to make the sonnet mimic his wonder at the architecture of things.
They are both very present in this his third sonnet sequence and they
make a labor of praise and praise out of labor.”
--Robert Hass\, former US Poet Laureate