Join us on Thursday, February 23rd at 7pm PT when we celebrate Beverly Burch and Robert Thomas' latest collections, Leave Me a Little Want and Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff, at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link ABOVE
About Leave Me a Little Want
In Burch's fourth poetry collection, Leave Me a Little Want, there is ferocious energy and tension in each poem as it fearlessly asks, "What are we doing/on this wild planet?" I love this book and its urgent attention to language and form in the "treacherous province" of our current times. Burch never turns away from the coexistence of the beautiful and the bloody, the tedious and the risky, and so I not only trust her, but feel jolted awake. In the words of Emily Dickinson, Burch is that writer "out with lanterns looking for herself," always conscious that she has briefly slipped through the "blessed aperture" into this world and, too soon, must slip out again.--Julia Levine
About Beverly Burch
Beverly Burch is the author of four poetry collections, including Latter Days of Eve, which won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press, and Sweet to Burn, which won the the Gival Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She has also written two books on psychoanalytic theory and women's sexual/gender identifications: On Intimate Terms(University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Southern Review, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Salamander, On the Seawall, and Barrow Street. She lives in Oakland, California.
About Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff
A fresh and modern take on one of the most classic poetic forms in the Western literary tradition.
"What if creatures in other galaxies / have a vague sense that something is missing, / but don't know it's Little Richard, Shakespeare, / and cornbread with plum jam?" In this collection, Robert Thomas presents eighty nontraditional sonnets that explore love and jealousy--the traditional obsessions of sonnets--from nontraditional angles. Other galaxies are jealous of Earth in these heartbreaking, funny, ecstatic, profound, and never boring poems.
About Robert Thomas
Robert Thomas's newest book is Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff (Carnegie Mellon). His previous book Bridge was a novella and won the PEN Center Award for Fiction, and his first book, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize. https://www.robertthomaspoems.com
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link ABOVE
About Leave Me a Little Want
In Burch's fourth poetry collection, Leave Me a Little Want, there is ferocious energy and tension in each poem as it fearlessly asks, "What are we doing/on this wild planet?" I love this book and its urgent attention to language and form in the "treacherous province" of our current times. Burch never turns away from the coexistence of the beautiful and the bloody, the tedious and the risky, and so I not only trust her, but feel jolted awake. In the words of Emily Dickinson, Burch is that writer "out with lanterns looking for herself," always conscious that she has briefly slipped through the "blessed aperture" into this world and, too soon, must slip out again.--Julia Levine
About Beverly Burch
Beverly Burch is the author of four poetry collections, including Latter Days of Eve, which won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press, and Sweet to Burn, which won the the Gival Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She has also written two books on psychoanalytic theory and women's sexual/gender identifications: On Intimate Terms(University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Southern Review, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Salamander, On the Seawall, and Barrow Street. She lives in Oakland, California.
About Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff
A fresh and modern take on one of the most classic poetic forms in the Western literary tradition.
"What if creatures in other galaxies / have a vague sense that something is missing, / but don't know it's Little Richard, Shakespeare, / and cornbread with plum jam?" In this collection, Robert Thomas presents eighty nontraditional sonnets that explore love and jealousy--the traditional obsessions of sonnets--from nontraditional angles. Other galaxies are jealous of Earth in these heartbreaking, funny, ecstatic, profound, and never boring poems.
About Robert Thomas
Robert Thomas's newest book is Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff (Carnegie Mellon). His previous book Bridge was a novella and won the PEN Center Award for Fiction, and his first book, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize. https://www.robertthomaspoems.com
Join us on Thursday, February 23rd at 7pm PT when we celebrate Beverly Burch and Robert Thomas' latest collections, Leave Me a Little Want and Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff, at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link ABOVE
About Leave Me a Little Want
In Burch's fourth poetry collection, Leave Me a Little Want, there is ferocious energy and tension in each poem as it fearlessly asks, "What are we doing/on this wild planet?" I love this book and its urgent attention to language and form in the "treacherous province" of our current times. Burch never turns away from the coexistence of the beautiful and the bloody, the tedious and the risky, and so I not only trust her, but feel jolted awake. In the words of Emily Dickinson, Burch is that writer "out with lanterns looking for herself," always conscious that she has briefly slipped through the "blessed aperture" into this world and, too soon, must slip out again.--Julia Levine
About Beverly Burch
Beverly Burch is the author of four poetry collections, including Latter Days of Eve, which won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press, and Sweet to Burn, which won the the Gival Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She has also written two books on psychoanalytic theory and women's sexual/gender identifications: On Intimate Terms(University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Southern Review, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Salamander, On the Seawall, and Barrow Street. She lives in Oakland, California.
About Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff
A fresh and modern take on one of the most classic poetic forms in the Western literary tradition.
"What if creatures in other galaxies / have a vague sense that something is missing, / but don't know it's Little Richard, Shakespeare, / and cornbread with plum jam?" In this collection, Robert Thomas presents eighty nontraditional sonnets that explore love and jealousy--the traditional obsessions of sonnets--from nontraditional angles. Other galaxies are jealous of Earth in these heartbreaking, funny, ecstatic, profound, and never boring poems.
About Robert Thomas
Robert Thomas's newest book is Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff (Carnegie Mellon). His previous book Bridge was a novella and won the PEN Center Award for Fiction, and his first book, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize. https://www.robertthomaspoems.com
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link ABOVE
About Leave Me a Little Want
In Burch's fourth poetry collection, Leave Me a Little Want, there is ferocious energy and tension in each poem as it fearlessly asks, "What are we doing/on this wild planet?" I love this book and its urgent attention to language and form in the "treacherous province" of our current times. Burch never turns away from the coexistence of the beautiful and the bloody, the tedious and the risky, and so I not only trust her, but feel jolted awake. In the words of Emily Dickinson, Burch is that writer "out with lanterns looking for herself," always conscious that she has briefly slipped through the "blessed aperture" into this world and, too soon, must slip out again.--Julia Levine
About Beverly Burch
Beverly Burch is the author of four poetry collections, including Latter Days of Eve, which won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press, and Sweet to Burn, which won the the Gival Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She has also written two books on psychoanalytic theory and women's sexual/gender identifications: On Intimate Terms(University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Southern Review, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Salamander, On the Seawall, and Barrow Street. She lives in Oakland, California.
About Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff
A fresh and modern take on one of the most classic poetic forms in the Western literary tradition.
"What if creatures in other galaxies / have a vague sense that something is missing, / but don't know it's Little Richard, Shakespeare, / and cornbread with plum jam?" In this collection, Robert Thomas presents eighty nontraditional sonnets that explore love and jealousy--the traditional obsessions of sonnets--from nontraditional angles. Other galaxies are jealous of Earth in these heartbreaking, funny, ecstatic, profound, and never boring poems.
About Robert Thomas
Robert Thomas's newest book is Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff (Carnegie Mellon). His previous book Bridge was a novella and won the PEN Center Award for Fiction, and his first book, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize. https://www.robertthomaspoems.com
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