03/16/2012 6:30 pm
03/16/2012 8:00 pm
Join us for an evening of poetry. Genevieve Kaplan reads from In the ice house (Red Hen Press) and Jared Stanley reads from Book Made of Forest (Salt Publishing). Genevieve Kaplan's book of poetry In the ice house won the 2009 A Room of Her Own Foundation To the Lighthouse poetry prize and was published in 2011 by Red Hen Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she's currently completing her Ph.D. in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in a variety of journals, including Western Humanities Review, Terrain.org: a journal of the built and natural environments, Front Porch, and Jubilat. Visit her website at: http://genevievekaplan.blogspot.com/ ********************************************************************************
Jared Stanley's Book Made of Forest is comprised of lyrics, mock journal entries, prose portraits and odes, Book Made of Forest answers the "summons and challenge" of being both human and animal, urban and rural, cultured and philistine, formal and ruinous, willful and acted-upon. Jared Stanley strikes at the absurd thingness of things, rings out their histories, traces their loss in the 6th extinction, figures his voluminous overhearing into poems rhetorical and fragmented, mournful and comedic. Jared Stanley is the author of two collections of poetry, Book Made of Forest and the forthcoming The Weeds, both from Salt Publishing. He co-edits the magazine Mrs. Maybe, and is a member of the art collective Unmanned Minerals. His recent work has appeared in OnandOnScreen, Precipitate: a Journal of the New Environmental Imagination, Ping*Pong: the Journal of the Henry Miller Library, and Badlands. He lives in Reno, Nevada.
Location:
|
|||
Genevieve Kaplan's In the ice house offers an innovative meditation on domestic life and the physical world that surrounds it, chronicling "at least the beginnings of some disaster" taking place in a landscape that "had no symmetry." Her poems reveal an atmospheric and wondrous world filled with odd and compelling images. Readers confront the menace of the ordinary, "the whale-faced spout of the drainpipe, the cluck / of the chicken-bird" and how ?the light attacks / the window and the stress of the shining / does not ease.? The poet's insistent evocation of elemental images - the birds, the ice, the water - becomes almost incantatory, as the speaker seeks escape from "the frantic outside" she's trapped within. Kaplan's sky "has the depth / of an ocean," and this book deeply articulates how "silence is the only word that can replace loss." Moving artfully between internal desires and incisive observations of the external, these stunning poems radiate with both heat and ice.
