Amanda Nadelberg + Ben Mirov

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland and Coffee House Press welcome Amanda Nadelberg and Ben Mirov to the store to discuss and sign their new poetry books, Songs from a Mountain and Ghost Machines, on Sunday, May 15th at 3:00pm.

Panoramic narratives made from imaginary forms, daily commutes, circuits of walks—invitations to a new sense of memory and scale. Songs from a Mountain has been praised by Publishers Weekly as “a wild, careening, conceptually wily (yet somehow ruly) book that refuses to keep its feet on the ground.”

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Bright Brave Phenomena, Isa the Truck Named Isadore, and, most recently, a chapbook called The Bartleby Poems. She lives in Oakland.

Douglas Kearney says of Ghost Machines: “Reading Ghost Machines, I am reminded of Brian Eno and David Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, J Dilla’s, or DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing. In these sonic works, archives reanimate into loop driven compositions that stave off endings. Refrain riddles these poems, deepening echoes that re-orient and destabilize.”

Ben Mirov is the author of Ghost Machines, Hider Roser, and Ghost Machine. He grew up in Northern California and lives in Oakland.

The books will be available for purchase at the event.