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MPC: B.H. Fairchild
April 18, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm UTC+0
Marin Poetry Center and North Berkeley Library are proud to co-sponsor a reading by B.H. Fairchild. Come to the North Berkeley Library on Tuesday, April 18th at 6 p.m. to hear this extraordinary poet read. (1170 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA)
B.H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in Texas and Kansas. The son of a lathe operator, his poetry explores the empty landscapes of the region of his birth, and the lives of its working-class residents, and the search for beauty and meaning in daily life. He is one of the great contemporary narrative poets. According to Paul Mariani, Fairchild’s poems “insist on the beauty to be found in what seems to be a desolate landscape.”
Fairchild’s books of poetry include The Arrival of the Future (1985; reissued 2000); The Art of the Lathe (1998), which received the Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2004), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the California Book Award, and the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Local Knowledge (2005); and Usher: Poems (2009). Fairchild has also written a critical study on the poetry of William Blake, Such Holy Song: Music as Idea, Form, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (1980).