Join us on Thursday, November 30th at 7pm PT when Erin Marie Lynch joins us for the release of her collection, Removal Acts, with Shelley Wong at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/Z2ifdLxfNvQ
Praise for Removal Acts
"Critical, capacious, and ingenious turn after turn, Removal Acts honors and embodies fraught complexities while maintaining keen aim and propulsive momentum. . . . Erin Marie Lynch has given us a gift of extraordinary proportions. I look forward to learning from this collection's rigorous heart and marvels of form for the rest of my life."--Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat
"Erin Marie Lynch has crafted a triumph in Removal Acts... We are asked to sit with ideas of privilege, generational trauma, personal desire, and forms of guilt as Lynch constructs her world around us."--Abigail Hebert, October Hill Magazine
"Erin Marie Lynch's debut poetry book, Removal Acts (Graywolf Press), is a deeply personal, formally inventive investigation into history, ancestry, and loss. . . . Throughout the work, Lynch's language remains precise, compassionate, inquisitive, and vulnerable."--Mathangi Subramanian, BOMB Magazine
About Removal Acts
A remarkable debut exploring the silences left by displacement--of a people, of a lineage, and of the self.
Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, this remarkable debut collection reckons with the present-day repercussions of historical violence. Through an array of brief lyrics, visual forms, chronologies, and sequences, these virtuosic poems trace a path through the labyrinth of distances and absences haunting the American colonial experiment.
Removal Acts takes its speaker's fraught methods of accessing the past as both subject and material: family photos, the fragile artifacts of primary documents, and the digital abyss of web browsers and word processors. Alongside studies of two of her Dakota ancestors, Lynch has assembled an intimate record of recovery from bulimia, insisting that self-erasure cannot be separated from the erasures of genocide. In these rigorous, scrutinizing examinations of "removal" in its many forms--as physical displacement, archival absence, Whiteness, and vomit--Lynch has crafted a harrowing portrait of the entwined relationship between the personal and historical. The result is a powerful affirmation of resilience and resolute presence in the face of eradication.
About Erin Marie Lynch
Erin Marie Lynch is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her writing appears in Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
About Shelley Wong
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize, longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award, and a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/Z2ifdLxfNvQ
Praise for Removal Acts
"Critical, capacious, and ingenious turn after turn, Removal Acts honors and embodies fraught complexities while maintaining keen aim and propulsive momentum. . . . Erin Marie Lynch has given us a gift of extraordinary proportions. I look forward to learning from this collection's rigorous heart and marvels of form for the rest of my life."--Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat
"Erin Marie Lynch has crafted a triumph in Removal Acts... We are asked to sit with ideas of privilege, generational trauma, personal desire, and forms of guilt as Lynch constructs her world around us."--Abigail Hebert, October Hill Magazine
"Erin Marie Lynch's debut poetry book, Removal Acts (Graywolf Press), is a deeply personal, formally inventive investigation into history, ancestry, and loss. . . . Throughout the work, Lynch's language remains precise, compassionate, inquisitive, and vulnerable."--Mathangi Subramanian, BOMB Magazine
About Removal Acts
A remarkable debut exploring the silences left by displacement--of a people, of a lineage, and of the self.
Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, this remarkable debut collection reckons with the present-day repercussions of historical violence. Through an array of brief lyrics, visual forms, chronologies, and sequences, these virtuosic poems trace a path through the labyrinth of distances and absences haunting the American colonial experiment.
Removal Acts takes its speaker's fraught methods of accessing the past as both subject and material: family photos, the fragile artifacts of primary documents, and the digital abyss of web browsers and word processors. Alongside studies of two of her Dakota ancestors, Lynch has assembled an intimate record of recovery from bulimia, insisting that self-erasure cannot be separated from the erasures of genocide. In these rigorous, scrutinizing examinations of "removal" in its many forms--as physical displacement, archival absence, Whiteness, and vomit--Lynch has crafted a harrowing portrait of the entwined relationship between the personal and historical. The result is a powerful affirmation of resilience and resolute presence in the face of eradication.
About Erin Marie Lynch
Erin Marie Lynch is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her writing appears in Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
About Shelley Wong
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize, longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award, and a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.
Join us on Thursday, November 30th at 7pm PT when Erin Marie Lynch joins us for the release of her collection, Removal Acts, with Shelley Wong at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/Z2ifdLxfNvQ
Praise for Removal Acts
"Critical, capacious, and ingenious turn after turn, Removal Acts honors and embodies fraught complexities while maintaining keen aim and propulsive momentum. . . . Erin Marie Lynch has given us a gift of extraordinary proportions. I look forward to learning from this collection's rigorous heart and marvels of form for the rest of my life."--Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat
"Erin Marie Lynch has crafted a triumph in Removal Acts... We are asked to sit with ideas of privilege, generational trauma, personal desire, and forms of guilt as Lynch constructs her world around us."--Abigail Hebert, October Hill Magazine
"Erin Marie Lynch's debut poetry book, Removal Acts (Graywolf Press), is a deeply personal, formally inventive investigation into history, ancestry, and loss. . . . Throughout the work, Lynch's language remains precise, compassionate, inquisitive, and vulnerable."--Mathangi Subramanian, BOMB Magazine
About Removal Acts
A remarkable debut exploring the silences left by displacement--of a people, of a lineage, and of the self.
Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, this remarkable debut collection reckons with the present-day repercussions of historical violence. Through an array of brief lyrics, visual forms, chronologies, and sequences, these virtuosic poems trace a path through the labyrinth of distances and absences haunting the American colonial experiment.
Removal Acts takes its speaker's fraught methods of accessing the past as both subject and material: family photos, the fragile artifacts of primary documents, and the digital abyss of web browsers and word processors. Alongside studies of two of her Dakota ancestors, Lynch has assembled an intimate record of recovery from bulimia, insisting that self-erasure cannot be separated from the erasures of genocide. In these rigorous, scrutinizing examinations of "removal" in its many forms--as physical displacement, archival absence, Whiteness, and vomit--Lynch has crafted a harrowing portrait of the entwined relationship between the personal and historical. The result is a powerful affirmation of resilience and resolute presence in the face of eradication.
About Erin Marie Lynch
Erin Marie Lynch is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her writing appears in Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
About Shelley Wong
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize, longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award, and a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/Z2ifdLxfNvQ
Praise for Removal Acts
"Critical, capacious, and ingenious turn after turn, Removal Acts honors and embodies fraught complexities while maintaining keen aim and propulsive momentum. . . . Erin Marie Lynch has given us a gift of extraordinary proportions. I look forward to learning from this collection's rigorous heart and marvels of form for the rest of my life."--Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat
"Erin Marie Lynch has crafted a triumph in Removal Acts... We are asked to sit with ideas of privilege, generational trauma, personal desire, and forms of guilt as Lynch constructs her world around us."--Abigail Hebert, October Hill Magazine
"Erin Marie Lynch's debut poetry book, Removal Acts (Graywolf Press), is a deeply personal, formally inventive investigation into history, ancestry, and loss. . . . Throughout the work, Lynch's language remains precise, compassionate, inquisitive, and vulnerable."--Mathangi Subramanian, BOMB Magazine
About Removal Acts
A remarkable debut exploring the silences left by displacement--of a people, of a lineage, and of the self.
Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, this remarkable debut collection reckons with the present-day repercussions of historical violence. Through an array of brief lyrics, visual forms, chronologies, and sequences, these virtuosic poems trace a path through the labyrinth of distances and absences haunting the American colonial experiment.
Removal Acts takes its speaker's fraught methods of accessing the past as both subject and material: family photos, the fragile artifacts of primary documents, and the digital abyss of web browsers and word processors. Alongside studies of two of her Dakota ancestors, Lynch has assembled an intimate record of recovery from bulimia, insisting that self-erasure cannot be separated from the erasures of genocide. In these rigorous, scrutinizing examinations of "removal" in its many forms--as physical displacement, archival absence, Whiteness, and vomit--Lynch has crafted a harrowing portrait of the entwined relationship between the personal and historical. The result is a powerful affirmation of resilience and resolute presence in the face of eradication.
About Erin Marie Lynch
Erin Marie Lynch is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her writing appears in Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
About Shelley Wong
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize, longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award, and a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.
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