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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: LGBTQ Book Readings presents 'Great Gift Books'
DESCRIPTION:Authors Sumiko Saulson\, Jim Provenzano\, and Colleen McKee present and read from their latest works
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-lgbtq-book-readings-presents-great-gift-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket!
DESCRIPTION:The summer’s over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let’s gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on THE DARK. Hosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:presenting a polyphonic play of interconnected stories \nfrom the new book \nVanishing Act \nby Roman Muradov \nfrom Fantagraphics Books \nWritten and drawn in thirteen styles\, from comedy and confession to prophecy and interpretative dance\, Vanishing Act is a polyphonic play of interconnected stories\, synchronized in time and space on one melancholy evening. A paranoid man rehearses the upcoming party. A disheveled actor expounds on the conceptual potential of sitcoms. A beloved dog disappears into the Internet and starts a cult. A couple runs their argument in reverse. A bored seagull excretes the entire known universe. Vanishing Act is governed by one looping constraint that unifies all of the disparate threads: each following story starts in the middle of the previous one\, overlapping until the end of the night\, and back into the beginning of the book. \nRoman Muradov is an award-winning author and illustrator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Vogue\, and Lucky Peach\, among others. He has also designed books for Penguin Random House\, including the Penguin Classics Centennial Editions of James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Muradov makes his home in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roman-muradov-3/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cosmopolitan Wanderlust: Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod discuss Oliverio Girondo’s Decals
DESCRIPTION:An important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and others\, Oliverio Girondo was at the center of Argentine poetry in the twentieth century. His first two books demonstrate his cosmopolitan wanderlust and avant-garde aesthetics. Twenty Poems to Be Read on the Streetcar crisscrosses Europe and the Americas on trams\, express trains\, and ocean liners. Decalcomania takes the reader on a tour of Spain that cleverly deflates its romantic appeal\, but reinvigorates it with a glamour found in Girondo’s intensive wordplay and idiosyncratic flare for metaphor. Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod join Silvia Oviedo López to discuss their translation of Decals: Complete Early Poems by Oliverio Girondo. \n\n “Girondo’s poetry is a song to the transgressive imagination\, an assault on routine. . . . Unlike other experimental artists\, his gestures usually transcended mere provocation. His work not only paved the way for a rigorous vanguardia\, with a profound theoretical basis\, but it also took up the quotidian as a field of action\, enriching it with an absurd humor that ties it to a Hispanic tradition that stretches from Quevedo and Gracián to Ramón Gómez de la Serna\, Julio Cortázar\, or Augusto Monterroso. Both shores of the language\, with their intense cultural differences\, are present (and both are parodied) in these poems that are something like scenes of self-criticism.” —Andrés Neuman\n\n“Girondo’s effectiveness undeniably frightens me. I came to his work from the suburbs of my own verse\, from that long line of mine where there are sunsets and little lanes and a blurry girl who looks clear next to a sky-blue balustrade. I saw him as so skillful\, so apt at hopping off a streetcar in full stride\, being reborn safe and sound amid the menace of car horns and stepping away from the passing crowd\, that I felt provincial next to him. . . . Girondo is a violent one. He looks on things at length and suddenly gives them a smack.” —Jorge Luis Borges\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cosmopolitan-wanderlust-rachel-galvin-and-harris-feinsod-discuss-oliverio-girondos-decals/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Emily Yoon\, Sam Sax\, Monica Sok
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nEmily Yoon\, Sam Sax and Monica Sok read their latest poems. \n\nAbout A Cruelty Special To Our Species \n\nA piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender\, race\, and violence from a sensational new talent \n  \nIn her arresting collection\, urgently relevant for our times\, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women\, focusing in particular on Korean so-called “comfort women\,” women who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II. \n  \nIn wrenching language\, A Cruelty Special to Our Species unforgettably describes the brutalities of war and the fear and sorrow of those whose lives and bodies were swept up by a colonizing power\, bringing powerful voice to an oppressed group of people whose histories have often been erased and overlooked. “What is a body in a stolen country\,” Yoon asks. “What is right in war.” \n  \nMoving readers through time\, space\, and different cultures\, and bringing vivid life to the testimonies and confessions of the victims\,Yoon takes possession of a painful and shameful history even while unearthing moments of rare beauty in acts of resistance and resilience\, and in the instinct to survive and bear witness. \n  \nAbout Bury It \n\nsam sax’s bury it\, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death\, rituals of passage\, translation\, desire\, diaspora\, and personhood. What’s at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says “bury it is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn. Exuberant\, wild\, tightly knotted mesmerisms of discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously.” In this phenomenal second collection of poems\, Sam Sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation of the bridges we cross\, the bridges we burn\, and bridges we must leap from.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-yoon-sam-sax-monica-sok/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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