POETRY
Welcome to the Poetry Book Club! From those who love reading but can’t commit to a 300 page novel to those who studied Shakespeare sonnets in college, this book club is for anyone interested in discussing the unique, engaging, and sometimes strange genre of poetry. Join us the second Monday of every month, unless otherwise noted, to discover all that poetry can do and be :)
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Poetry Book Club will be meeting on Monday, May 13th, at 7 pm. We will be reading Bluets by Maggie Nelson.
About the book:
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .
A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.
Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
Poetry Book Club will be meeting on Monday, June 10th, at 7 pm. We will be reading A Queen in Bucks County by Kay Gabriel.
About the book:
2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor.In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is not the writer, makes his pleasurable way through miserable space. Men "buy him things," lovers drive across state lines, users down volatile cocktails to see what happens, landlords turn tenants out, and Turner writes poetic tracts to friends about it. Part pornography, part novel, all love letter, A Queen in Bucks County is an experiment in turning language upside down to see what falls out.
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