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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Yang
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Yang \n\n\n\nreading from new poetry and a new book: \nHey Marfa: poems \npublished by Graywolf Press \nSituated in the outreaches of southwest Texas\, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists\, immigrants looking for work\, and ranchers\, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert\, township\, sky\, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art? \nYang has fashioned a fascinating\, multifaceted work—an anti-travel guide\, an anti-western\, a book of last words—that is a lyrical\, anthropological investigation into history\, culture\, and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa’s landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang’s texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey\, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light. \n\n\nJeffrey Yang is the author of Hey\, Marfa; Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium\, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. He is the translator of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies. Yang lives in Beacon\, New York. \n\n\n\nGraywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. We champion outstanding writers at all stages of their careers to ensure that diverse voices can be heard in a crowded marketplace. Graywolf believes books that nourish the individual spirit and enrich the broader culture must be supported by attentive editing\, superior design\, and creative promotion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-yang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JONATHAN FRANZEN
DESCRIPTION:JONATHAN FRANZEN\nTuesday\, November 27\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nSince his debut novel\, The Twenty-Seventh City\, Jonathan Franzen has been writing brilliantly about the unraveling American Dream in its many permutations. In his novels The Corrections\, Freedom\, and Purity\, Franzen tackles difficult and complex characters in a style marked by his Midwest upbringing and his unique brand of social criticism. Franzen’s nonfiction includes Farther Away\, The Kraus Project\, and his newest essay collection\, The End of the End of the Earth\, in which he returns with renewed vigor to the themes—both human and literary—that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle\, recounting his young adulthood in New York\, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis\, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that readers have come to expect from Franzen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-franzen/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
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