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SUMMARY:The Epicenter: Kim Addonizio
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Kim Addonizio’s newest books\, the memoir Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life\, and the poetry collection Mortal Trash . She will be in conversation\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nKim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories\, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as “Charles Bukowski in a sundress.” (“Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?” she muses.) Now\, in this utterly original memoir in essays\, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age. \nAddonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road—from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling\, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like “What Writers Do All Day\,” “How to Fall for a Younger Man\,” and “Necrophilia” (that is\, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father\, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother\, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinson’s at the end of her life; and her daughter\, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse. \nAt once intimate and outrageous\, Addonizio’s memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love—and that new readers will not soon forget. \nPassionate and irreverent\, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit\, lament\, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands\,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me\,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart\, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda\, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts\, lawn gnomes\, Evian bottles\, wind-up Christmas creches\, edible panties\, cracked mirrors. Whether comic\, elegiac\, or ironic\, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-epicenter-kim-addonizio/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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