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In-Store Event: Poetry Reading with Teresa K. Miller (Borderline Fortune) and Abraham Smith (Destruction of Man)
We're delighted to announce an in-store poetry reading with Teresa K. Miller (author of Borderline Fortune) and Abraham Smith (author of Destruction of Man) on Tuesday, November 9th at 7 PM. We hope to see you there!
About Borderline Fortune
Borderline Fortune is a meditation on intangible family inheritance—of unresolved intergenerational conflicts and traumas in particular—set against the backdrop of our planetary inheritance as humans. As species go extinct and glaciers melt, Teresa K. Miller asks what we owe one another and what it means to echo one’s ancestors’ grief and fear. Drawing on her family history, from her great-grandfather’s experience as a schoolteacher on an island in the Bering Strait to her father’s untimely death, as well as her pursuit of regenerative horticulture, Miller seeks through these beautifully crafted poems to awaken from the intergenerational trance and bear witness to our current moment with clarity and attention.
About Teresa K. Miller
A graduate of Barnard College and the Mills College MFA program, Teresa K. Miller is the author of sped (Sidebrow) and Forever
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Bob Holman, my friend, fellow poet and co-editor of Crossing State Lines: An American Renga is in Kathmandu. It is not at all unusual for Bob to turn up in exotic locations -- he spends a bit of his time documenting and recording "disappearing" languages for his ongoing study of orality in world cultures.
Now, though Bob is "broadcasting from a cloud" (Nepal) -- he has something to say about the "relevance" of poetry -- in particular something to say about the relevance of "Crossing State Lines," which is a collaborative "conversation" poem among 54 American poets, from Robert Pinsky to Adrienne Rich to Rita Dove to Paul Simon to Billy Collins -- just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Crossing State Lines: an American Renga is a book that came about because Bob and I signed on as "co-curators" of the poetry "wing" of America: Now & Here -- a national arts project dreamed up by Eric Fischl a few years ago.
Since Eric's primary goal was (and is) getting Americans to talk among themselves about art ("art trucks" loaded with art Inspiration travel throughout the U.S.) -- I suggested that the renga, the ancient Japanese linked verse form, could be just the right delivery system for the "varied carols" (as Bob describes them) -- of the chorus of participating poet