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SUMMARY:Aichlee Bushnell + Solmaz Sharif
DESCRIPTION:Aichlee Bushnell’s remarkable debut\, Objects of Attention\, won the 2014 Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry and works with the writings of Thomas Jefferson tell the story of Sally Hemings with great care\, as Juliana Spahr writes: “Care with how to represent her\, her body. Care to not appropriate. Care to complicate. Care to tell it as expansive\, as international.” An alum of the MFA program at Mills College\, Bushnell is a Cave Canem fellow. She currently lives in Oakland with her family. \nOne of the most anticipated books of 2016\, Solmaz Sharif’s Look uses language from the Department of Defense to investigate the violence and loss of war\, and how these things are embedded in daily language. Sharif’s poetry has appeared in The New Republic\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, Boston Review\, and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, her work has been recognized with many awards including NEA and Stegner Fellowships. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aichlee-bushnell-solmaz-sharif/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes poet/translator Alan Bernheimer\, to the store to discuss and sign\, Lost Profiles on Tuesday\, November 15th at 7:00pm. \nPoet Alan Bernheimer provides a long overdue English translation of the French literary classic\, Philippe Soupault’s Lost Profiles. It is a retrospective of a crucial period in modernism written by Soupault\, the co-founder of the surrealist movement. Opening with a reminiscence of the international Dada movement in the late 1910s and its transformation into the beginnings of surrealism\, Lost Profiles ushers its readers into encounters with a variety of literary lions: We meet an elegant Marcel Proust\, renting five adjoining rooms at an expensive hotel to “contain” the silence needed to produce Remembrance of Things Past; an exhausted James Joyce putting himself through grueling translation sessions for Finnegans Wake; and an enigmatic Apollinaire in search of the ultimate “objet trouve.” Soupault sketches lively portraits of surrealist precursors like Pierre Reverdy and Blaise Cendrars\, a moving account of his tragic fellow surrealist Rene Crevel\, and the story of his unlikely friendship with right-wing anti-Vichy critic George Bernanos. The collection ends with essays on two modernist forerunners\, Charles Baudelaire and Henri Rousseau. With an afterword by Ron Padgett recounting his meeting with Soupault in the mid 70’s and a preface by Breton biographer Mark Polizzotti\, Lost Profiles confirms Soupault’s place in the vanguard of twentieth-century literature. \nAlan Bernheimer’s most recent poetry collection is The Spoonlight Institute. He has lived in the Bay Area since the late 1970s\, where he was active in Poets Theater and produced a radio program\, In the American Tree\, of new writing by poets. He has translated works by Robert Desnos and Valery Larbaud.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SJSU Lurie Author-in-Residence 2017: Vendela Vida
DESCRIPTION:Vendela Vida is a native Californian\, journalist\, editor\, and novelist\, and will serve as SJSU’s Lurie Author-in-Residence in 2017. She is the author of five books\, including Girls on the Verge\, a nonfiction exploration of how young women from a myriad of cultures come of age in modern America; And Now You Can Go\, which The New York Review of Books describes as “a thriller about how we love and how we forgive and when and how we have to choose to do so”; and finally\, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name\, a 2007 New York Times Notable Book of the Year that evokes a culture on the cusp of extinction. Her most recent novel\, The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty\, described by actress Lena Dunham as “part glamorous travelogue\, part slow-burn mystery\,” recounts a tale that investigates the frailty of identity. She received the 2007 Kate Chopin Writing Award and is a founding coeditor of the stalwart San Francisco publication The Believer\, as well as the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers. She also collaborated with her husband Dave Eggers on the screenplay for the film Away We Go\, which opened the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sjsu-lurie-author-in-residence-2017-vendela-vida/
LOCATION:Dr. MLK Jr. Library SJSU\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose\, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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