Join us on Tuesday, July 16 at 7pm PT when we celebrate the release of Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy with Richie Hofmann at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Coachella Elegy
Winner of the 2023 Trio Award
"There is something spare and trance-like in Christian Gullette's mesmerizing Coachella Elegy. The source of the intensity, as in many of the landscapes Gullette describes, is gradation and precision, tremors of warning rather than full-on earthquakes. The subjects are raw. A brother's death. The speaker's husband's ocular cancer. The landscape's diminishing wildness in a tremulous, post-AIDS California. I admire Coachella Elegy's refinement, its nuanced approach to deep emotion. I feel the tremors in my bones." --DIANE SEUSS
"In restless, miraculous poems, Christian Gullette turns his gaze to a California haunted by memory and mortality. Wandering in the desert, commuting between San Francisco and poolside paradises, his wise and moving debut, Coachella Elegy, is a spiritual autobiography in verse--in which hot sun and bright pleasures are stays against loss." --RICHIE HOFMANN
"There is something at once elegant and seething about Coachella Elegy, its cool eroticism and poolside betrayals. Christian Gullette upends diction and expectation, his sculptures 'ironic,' his landscape a discourse where 'wind in palms signals / a desert revising itself into dusk.' Like Thom Gunn, Gullette hides in plain sight--between the lines, subtle grief all the more grievous. The poems in Coachella Elegy are gorgeous, sinister, and clear as water." --RANDALL MANN
About Christian Gullette
Christian Gullette is the author of Coachella Elegy, winner of the Trio House Press Trio Award. Publishers Weekly praised Coachella Elegy as ""Tender and deliciously sly...Gullette delivers a nuanced, well-paced collection."Coachella Elegy has also been included in LitHub and Debutiful lists of must-read poetry collections for 2024. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. He is the recipient of a 2022 Bread Loaf scholarship. Christian works as a Swedish-to-English translator, and he'll be a faculty member for the 2024 Kenyon Review Online Translation Workshop. Christian also serves as the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review. He lives in San Francisco with his husband Michael.
About Richie Hofmann
Richie Hofmann is the author of Second Empire (2015), and his poetry has appeared recently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He teaches at Stanford University and lives in Chicago and San Francisco.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Coachella Elegy
Winner of the 2023 Trio Award
"There is something spare and trance-like in Christian Gullette's mesmerizing Coachella Elegy. The source of the intensity, as in many of the landscapes Gullette describes, is gradation and precision, tremors of warning rather than full-on earthquakes. The subjects are raw. A brother's death. The speaker's husband's ocular cancer. The landscape's diminishing wildness in a tremulous, post-AIDS California. I admire Coachella Elegy's refinement, its nuanced approach to deep emotion. I feel the tremors in my bones." --DIANE SEUSS
"In restless, miraculous poems, Christian Gullette turns his gaze to a California haunted by memory and mortality. Wandering in the desert, commuting between San Francisco and poolside paradises, his wise and moving debut, Coachella Elegy, is a spiritual autobiography in verse--in which hot sun and bright pleasures are stays against loss." --RICHIE HOFMANN
"There is something at once elegant and seething about Coachella Elegy, its cool eroticism and poolside betrayals. Christian Gullette upends diction and expectation, his sculptures 'ironic,' his landscape a discourse where 'wind in palms signals / a desert revising itself into dusk.' Like Thom Gunn, Gullette hides in plain sight--between the lines, subtle grief all the more grievous. The poems in Coachella Elegy are gorgeous, sinister, and clear as water." --RANDALL MANN
About Christian Gullette
Christian Gullette is the author of Coachella Elegy, winner of the Trio House Press Trio Award. Publishers Weekly praised Coachella Elegy as ""Tender and deliciously sly...Gullette delivers a nuanced, well-paced collection."Coachella Elegy has also been included in LitHub and Debutiful lists of must-read poetry collections for 2024. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. He is the recipient of a 2022 Bread Loaf scholarship. Christian works as a Swedish-to-English translator, and he'll be a faculty member for the 2024 Kenyon Review Online Translation Workshop. Christian also serves as the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review. He lives in San Francisco with his husband Michael.
About Richie Hofmann
Richie Hofmann is the author of Second Empire (2015), and his poetry has appeared recently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He teaches at Stanford University and lives in Chicago and San Francisco.
Join us on Tuesday, July 16 at 7pm PT when we celebrate the release of Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy with Richie Hofmann at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Coachella Elegy
Winner of the 2023 Trio Award
"There is something spare and trance-like in Christian Gullette's mesmerizing Coachella Elegy. The source of the intensity, as in many of the landscapes Gullette describes, is gradation and precision, tremors of warning rather than full-on earthquakes. The subjects are raw. A brother's death. The speaker's husband's ocular cancer. The landscape's diminishing wildness in a tremulous, post-AIDS California. I admire Coachella Elegy's refinement, its nuanced approach to deep emotion. I feel the tremors in my bones." --DIANE SEUSS
"In restless, miraculous poems, Christian Gullette turns his gaze to a California haunted by memory and mortality. Wandering in the desert, commuting between San Francisco and poolside paradises, his wise and moving debut, Coachella Elegy, is a spiritual autobiography in verse--in which hot sun and bright pleasures are stays against loss." --RICHIE HOFMANN
"There is something at once elegant and seething about Coachella Elegy, its cool eroticism and poolside betrayals. Christian Gullette upends diction and expectation, his sculptures 'ironic,' his landscape a discourse where 'wind in palms signals / a desert revising itself into dusk.' Like Thom Gunn, Gullette hides in plain sight--between the lines, subtle grief all the more grievous. The poems in Coachella Elegy are gorgeous, sinister, and clear as water." --RANDALL MANN
About Christian Gullette
Christian Gullette is the author of Coachella Elegy, winner of the Trio House Press Trio Award. Publishers Weekly praised Coachella Elegy as ""Tender and deliciously sly...Gullette delivers a nuanced, well-paced collection."Coachella Elegy has also been included in LitHub and Debutiful lists of must-read poetry collections for 2024. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. He is the recipient of a 2022 Bread Loaf scholarship. Christian works as a Swedish-to-English translator, and he'll be a faculty member for the 2024 Kenyon Review Online Translation Workshop. Christian also serves as the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review. He lives in San Francisco with his husband Michael.
About Richie Hofmann
Richie Hofmann is the author of Second Empire (2015), and his poetry has appeared recently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He teaches at Stanford University and lives in Chicago and San Francisco.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Coachella Elegy
Winner of the 2023 Trio Award
"There is something spare and trance-like in Christian Gullette's mesmerizing Coachella Elegy. The source of the intensity, as in many of the landscapes Gullette describes, is gradation and precision, tremors of warning rather than full-on earthquakes. The subjects are raw. A brother's death. The speaker's husband's ocular cancer. The landscape's diminishing wildness in a tremulous, post-AIDS California. I admire Coachella Elegy's refinement, its nuanced approach to deep emotion. I feel the tremors in my bones." --DIANE SEUSS
"In restless, miraculous poems, Christian Gullette turns his gaze to a California haunted by memory and mortality. Wandering in the desert, commuting between San Francisco and poolside paradises, his wise and moving debut, Coachella Elegy, is a spiritual autobiography in verse--in which hot sun and bright pleasures are stays against loss." --RICHIE HOFMANN
"There is something at once elegant and seething about Coachella Elegy, its cool eroticism and poolside betrayals. Christian Gullette upends diction and expectation, his sculptures 'ironic,' his landscape a discourse where 'wind in palms signals / a desert revising itself into dusk.' Like Thom Gunn, Gullette hides in plain sight--between the lines, subtle grief all the more grievous. The poems in Coachella Elegy are gorgeous, sinister, and clear as water." --RANDALL MANN
About Christian Gullette
Christian Gullette is the author of Coachella Elegy, winner of the Trio House Press Trio Award. Publishers Weekly praised Coachella Elegy as ""Tender and deliciously sly...Gullette delivers a nuanced, well-paced collection."Coachella Elegy has also been included in LitHub and Debutiful lists of must-read poetry collections for 2024. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. He is the recipient of a 2022 Bread Loaf scholarship. Christian works as a Swedish-to-English translator, and he'll be a faculty member for the 2024 Kenyon Review Online Translation Workshop. Christian also serves as the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review. He lives in San Francisco with his husband Michael.
About Richie Hofmann
Richie Hofmann is the author of Second Empire (2015), and his poetry has appeared recently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He teaches at Stanford University and lives in Chicago and San Francisco.
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