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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: ‘VEXATION\, AMPLITUDE’ BY TOM STOLMAR
DESCRIPTION:FRI. NOV. 16TH\, 7PM \n  \nJoin Tom Stolmar and friends in celebrating the release of his new poetry collection\, Vexation\, Amplitude. \nLong overdue\, this collection of Tom Stolmar’s poems bottles his impulse-driven barely containable talent for stringing words together that convey unexpected emotional truths laced with comedy of the highest and lowest orders. In some poems\, Stolmar appears to have channeled Wallace Stevens by way of a mad Hungarian street performer on the San Francisco waterfront. His antics attract a crowd. Stick around and he will bring you gales of much-needed laughter and just before the rain starts\, move you to tears. \nklipschutz\n\nTom Stolmar’s Vexation\, Amplitude is one of the more aptly named poetry collections that I’ve read this year because\, again and again\, it describes perplexing human oscillations at apex. The work is that of a writer puzzling his way through transitions – of language\, of art\, of meanings\, of eras\, of aging\, of bonds and breaking bonds. The poems flip tones\, and topics\, and approaches\, and directions\, but Stolmar remains on edge\, or on the edge\, throughout. This is a book from the edge\, a familiar human edge of passion and self-doubt and plunging forward. The pieces vacillate from complex examinations of mind and self\, “We draw inspiration/ from those who truly look/ at such a cost; time being infinite/ and your eyes the gesture of a clock…” to pure joyous wordplay. This is the work of a fella who’s been dedicated to writing for decades and it shows\, and who has been known to do backflips in the middle of a reading\, and that shows too. \nrichard loranger
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-vexation-amplitude-by-tom-stolmar/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter LaBerge & Rebecca Foust Falkirk Center
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, the Marin County Poet Laureate\, is the author of four books of poetry: Paradise Drive (2015)\, which won a Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award\, a National Indie Excellence Award for Poetry\, a San Francisco Book Festival Award for Poetry\, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Poetry; All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of a Many Mountains Moving Press Book Prize; and God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (2010)\, a collaboration with artist Lorna Stevens that won a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Foust’s chapbooks include Mom’s Canoe (2009) and Dark Card (2008). Foust has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Frost Place\, where she was the 2014 Dartmouth poet-in-residence. She is on the board of the Marin Poetry Center\, a reader for the Northern California Book Award\, and assistant editor of fiction for Narrative magazine. She is an autism activist and a grassroots organizer. \nPeter LaBerge is the author of the chapbooks Makeshift Cathedral (YesYes Books\, 2017) and Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2015). His recent work appears in Best New Poets\, Crazyhorse\, Harvard Review\, Iowa Review\, Pleiades\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal\, and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry. He lives in Redwood City\, California\, where he works as a content marketer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-laberge-rebecca-foust-falkirk-center/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kristen Tracy with Daniel Handler / Half-Hazard
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems\,Half-Hazard\, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen in conversation isDaniel Handler. Please join us! \n  \nHalf-Hazard is a book of near misses\, would-be tragedies\, and luck. As Kristen Tracy writes in the title poem\, “Dangers here. Perils there. It’ll go how it goes.” The collection follows Tracy’s wide curiosity\, from her growing up in a small Mormon farming community to her exodus out into the forbidden world\, where she finds snakes\, car accidents\, adulterers\, meteors\, and death-marked mice. These wry\, observant narratives are accompanied by a ringing lyricism and Tracy’s own knack at noticing what’s so funny about trouble and her natural impulse to want to put all the broken things back together. Full of wrong turns\, false loves\, quashed beliefs\, and a menagerie of animals\, Half-Hazardintroduces a vibrant new voice in American poetry\, one of resilience\, faith\, and joy. \n  \n\n  \nKristen Tracy is a poet and acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels for young readers. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, and the Threepenny Review\, among other magazines. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. \n  \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\,Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Half-Hazard\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kristen-tracy-with-daniel-handler-half-hazard/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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