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Robert Pesich: Model Organism book release + reading
September 8, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm UTC+0
Join us for an evening with a community leader in both the practice and presentation of poetry. Doors open 6:30pm; reading begins 7pm.
Robert Pesich is the editor and publisher at Swan Scythe Press (swanscythepress.com), president of Poetry Center San José (pcsj.org) and coordinator for The Well-RED Reading Series at Works/San José. Recent work has appeared in 7×7, The Bitter Oleander, Red Wheelbarrow, Sand Hill Review and sPARKLE + bLINK. He has received poetry fellowships from Arts Council Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Community Foundation and was thrice a Djerassi Resident Artist Fellow. Nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, he was awarded the Littoral Press Poetry Prize in 2009. Author of Burned Kilim (Dragonfly Press) his collection of poetry Model Organism has just been published by Five Oaks Press. He works as a lab manager and research associate for Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research and for Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept. of Infectious Diseases. He was born and raised in San José.
Poet Sandra McPherson says about the book:
“An altar of monitors” describes Robert Pesich’s curiousness and embracing perspicacity. His insights are both scientific and heartbreaking; poems that know “the blues” also illuminate the world with a light of many colors. When there is an I, it’s a poet-scientist able to identify even physiologically with the prey of a red-tailed hawk or a hummingbird loose in the Biology building. Pesich is our Miroslav Holub; his Nude Mouse is Elizabeth Bishop’s armadillo. This collection advances our consciousness and smartens up Twenty-first Century poetry’s aesthetic.”
See more at www.robertpesich.com and www.five-oaks-press.com/