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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin reads from The Blue Absolute
DESCRIPTION:Monday May 25th at 6pm we will post video here and on youtube: Aaron Shurin reading from his latest book. \nYou can order a copy of The Blue Absolute here:\nhttps://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-absolute/9781643620169?aid=2426\nOr call the store 510.849.2087 for curbside pickup. \nAaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently The Blue Absolute\, just out from Nightboat Books. Other works include: Flowers & Sky: Two\nTalks (Entre Rios Books\, 2017)\, The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press\, 2015)\, and two books from City Lights: Citizen (poems\, 2012) and King of Shadows (essays\, 20008). His writing has appeared in over\nforty national and international anthologies\, and has been supported by grants from The National Endowment for the Arts\, The California Arts Council\, The San Francisco Arts\nCommission\, and the Gerbode Foundation. A pioneer in both LGBTQ+ studies and innovative verse\, Shurin is the former director and currently Professor Emeritus for the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
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SUMMARY:Porochista Khakpour / Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Porochista Khakpour for her new book Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity. \nThis will be a virtual event\, live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door; and did you know we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire? Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nNovelist Porochista Khakpour’s family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution\, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one’s way through a confusing tangle of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is pulled between the glitzy culture of Tehrangeles\, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA\, her own family’s modest life and culture\, and becoming an assimilated American. Porochista rebels — she bleaches her hair and flees to the East Coast\, where she finds her community: other people writing and thinking at the fringes. But\, 9/11 happens and with horror\, Porochista watches from her apartment window as the towers fall. Extremism and fear of the Middle East rises in the aftermath and then again with the election of Donald Trump. Porochista is forced to finally grapple with what it means to be Middle-Eastern and Iranian\, an immigrant\, and a refugee in our country today.Brown Album is a stirring collection of essays\, at times humorous and at times profound\, drawn from more than a decade of Porochista’s work and with new material included. Altogether\, it reveals the tolls that immigrant life in this country can take on a person and the joys that life can give.
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