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SUMMARY:Barbara Hamby and Barbara Ras
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Barbara Hamby\, Holoholo\, and Barbara Ras\, The Blues of Heaven\, online via Zoom\, free\, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading) \nMORE ABOUT THE READERS\nPlease join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Sunday\, March 28 at 3:00 pm PDT! We are excited to bring you Barbara Ras and Barbara Hamby via Zoom. To register for this reading\, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times. \nThis reading is co-sponsored by Moe’s Books in Berkeley; the featured books are available at bookshop.org/lists/poetry-flash-readings. \nBarbara Ras’s new book of poems is The Blues of Heaven\, both personal\, dealing with grief over the death of a brother and memories of growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Polish immigrants\, and national\, reflecting on gun violence\, the climate crisis\, and the fecklessness of an ignorant\, corrupt government. Naomi Shihab Nye said\, “The Blues of Heaven radiates with immense tenderness—here are poems of vivid painterly wonderment\, perfect pacing and weight\, elegantly woven counterpoints of shimmering imagery.” Ras’s previous collections include Bite Every Sorrow\, winner of the Walt Whitman Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, One Hidden Stuff\, and The Lost Skin. Her poetry has been published in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, Granta\, Orion\, and elsewhere\, and she’s been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, among others. She lives in San Antonio\, Texas\, and is the founding director emerita of the Trinity University Press. \nBarbara Hamby’s new book of poems is Holoholo\, the Hawaiian word for strolling without a fixed destination. A collage of one woman’s consciousness\, spoken in an American lingo\, including Yiddish and street talk\, its three sections motor across wars\, racial tension\, street violence\, and other assorted national chaos. Billy Collins said\, “”Barbara Hamby’s poems are wild\, outspoken\, seriously funny\, motor-mouth rambles that take us through hoops of association to places both unexpected and unimpeachable. This collection offers a generous helping of poems so crackling with references and busy with verbal energy you might feel them buzzing in your hands.” She’s the author of seven previous collections\, most recently Bird Odyssey and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. Her book of linked stories\, Lester Higata’s 20th Century\, was the winner of the 2010 University of Iowa John Simmons Award. A 2010 Guggenheim fellow\, she is also co-editor\, with her husband David Kirby\, of Seriously Funny\, an anthology of poetry.
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SUMMARY:Carribean Fragoza
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of her new book \nEat the Mouth that Feeds You \npublished by City Lights Books \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \nIn gritty\, sometimes fantastical stories about Latinx life\, women challenge feminine stereotypes and make sense of fractured family histories \n“In Carribean Fragoza’s weirdly sweet short story collection Eat the Mouth that Feeds You\, eyebrows are Sharpie-thin\, children say I love you with axes\, and dying is an adventure. Her Chicanx gothic tales root horror in the most terrifying of places\, the family. The creepiest pockets of the Brown imagination are her playground. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You renders the feminine grotesque at its finest.”—Myriam Gurba\, author of Mean \n“Every story in this luminous collection creates its own lush\, beautiful\, and utterly singular universe. Carribean Fragoza reaches deep into the bodies and souls of her subjects\, and writes about desire and fear like few other writers can. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You will establish Fragoza as an essential and important new voice in American fiction.”—Héctor Tobar\, author of The Barbarian Nurseries \nThis stunningly original collection of stories illuminates a spectrum of Latinx\, Chicanx\, and immigrant women’s voices. In confrontations with fraught matrilineal lines\, absent or abusive fathers\, and the effects of historical violence\, these women and girls navigate a male-dominated world where they rely on a resilient mujer network to get them through sometimes supernatural obstacles. \nIn visceral\, embodied prose\, Fragoza’s imperfect characters are drawn with an authentic\, sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college\, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter\, whose penchant for ingesting grandma’s letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture\, and then to the backyard fence\, until finally she attacks the family’s beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship\, and women’s wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border. \n\nThe daughter of Mexican immigrants\, Carribean Fragoza was raised in South El Monte\, California. After graduating from UCLA\, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts\, where she worked with writers Douglas Kearney and Norman Klein. Today\, Fragoza co-edits UC Press’s acclaimed California cultural journal\, Boom California\, and is also the founder of South El Monte Arts Posse\, an interdisciplinary arts collective. \nHer fiction and nonfiction have appeared numerous publications\, including BOMB\, Huizache\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the co-editor of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte\, published February 2020 by Rutgers University Press and Senior Writer at the Tropics of Meta. Carribean is the Coordinator of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award at Claremont Graduate University\, and she lives in the San Gabriel Valley in LA County. \nMore at Carribean’s web site: http://carribeanfragoza.com/ \nAdvance praise for Eat the Mouth That Feeds You \n“The magic realism of Eat the Mouth That Feeds You is thoroughly worked into the fabric of the stories themselves\, strung through the warp and weft of family\, community\, and what it means as a child\, as a mother\, as a woman\, to both belong and not belong. These are powerful stories about making one’s way\, and about the things that keep a grip on you no matter where you are\, even if you’re dead.”—Brian Evenson\, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World \n“Fragoza’s prose\, a switchblade of a magical glow\, cauterizes as it cuts. In a setting of barren citrus trees\, poison-filled balloons\, and stuccos haunted by the menace of the past\, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You reinvents the sunny noir.“—Salvador Plascencia\, author of The People of Paper \n“I felt this collection deep in my bones. Like the Chicanx women whose voices she centers\, Carribean Fragoza’s writing doesn’t flinch. It is sharp and dream-like\, tender-hearted and brutal\, carved from the violence and resilience of generations past and present.”—Natalia Sylvester\, author of Everyone Knows You Go Home \n“Carribean Fragoza goes deep. This book makes central the lives of women\, whether sourced locally or rooted in Mexico\, whether alive or dead to the world\, surrealistic or hyper realistic\, in the flesh or as spirits centuries old. This is storytelling that astonishes\, passing through industrialized lives of women like gamma rays or cosmic rays—and I was not only astonished\, I was moved. Kafka said\, ‘A book must be an axe for the frozen sea that is within us.’ Be careful how you heft this book—it’s sharp as obsidian\, this axe.”—Sesshu Foster\, author of Atomik Aztex \n“This collection establishes Carribean Fragoza as a new American voice to be reckoned with—her invigoratingly imaginative stories are nothing short of brilliant.”— J. Ryan Stradal\, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota
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