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SUMMARY:Canceled: Cowboy & Other Poems: Alejandro Albarrán Polanco and Rachel Galvin
DESCRIPTION:Mexican poet Alejandro Albarrán Polanco joins poet and translator Rachel Galvin to talk about his chapbook\, Cowboy & Other Poems\, from Ugly Duckling Presse. \nAbout Cowboy & Other Poems\, Maricela Guerrero writes “Prosthesis poems raising questions about the means by which the discourse of terror erodes our conversations. Piles of poems bursting into piles of words\, crashing against the univocal: Albarrán’s work is an ensemble of voices resonating from the most sincere tenderness to the most terrible and terrifying ways in which the contemporary world of crime and horror is narrated. In this book a cowboy gallops on a thousand prairies of senseless sense\, carrying us mounted on the rump\, expectant.” \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nAlejandro Albarrán Polanco\n\n\nAlejandro Albarrán Polanco (b. Mexico City) is the author of Algunas personas no son caballos\, which won the Premio Internacional Manuel Acuña in 2018. He is a founding editor of the press Canón Accidental and co-director of the radio program Radio Rara. He is also a musician and conceptual artist whose performances\, installations\, and artist’s books have been featured in numerous art exhibitions.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nRachel Galvin\n\n\nRachel Galvin is an award-winning poet\, translator\, and scholar. Her books include two collections of poetry\, Pulleys & Locomotion and Elevated Threat Level; a work of criticism\, News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945; and Hitting the Streets\, a translation from the French of Raymond Queneau. She is a co-founder of the Outranspo\, an international creative translation collective\, and assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cowboy-other-poems-alejandro-albarran-polanco-and-rachel-galvin/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Mountains Sing \nfrom Workman Publishing Company \n“An epic account of Việt Nam’s painful 20th century history\, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN\, author of The Sympathizer\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize \nWith the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan\, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping\, multigenerational tale of the Trần family\, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan\, who was born in 1920\, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội\, her young granddaughter\, Hương\, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore not just her beloved country\, but her family apart. \nVivid\, gripping\, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam\, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves\, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. \nThe Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English. \nBorn into the Viet Nam War in 1973\, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai grew up witnessing the war’s devastation and its aftermath. She worked as a street seller and rice farmer before winning a scholarship to attend university in Australia. She is the author of eight books of poetry\, fiction and non-fiction published in Vietnamese\, and her writing has been translated and published in more than 10 countries\, most recently in Norton’s Inheriting the War anthology. She has been honored with many awards\, including the Poetry of the Year 2010 Award from the Ha Noi Writers Association\, as well as many grants and fellowships. Married to a European diplomat\, Quế Mai is currently living in Jakarta with her two teenage children. \nFor more information about Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai\, visit her at www.nguyenphanquemai.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nguyen-phan-que-mai/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Monica Sok: A Nail the Evening Hangs On
DESCRIPTION:Monica Sok discusses her debut poetry collection\, A Nail the Evening Hangs On\, with Barbara Jane Reyes. \nPraise for A Nail the Evening Hangs On \n“Sok’s reflective debut teases out how the trauma of the Khmer Rouge is remembered and retained in the fabric of the country and within her own family… Weaving the threads of her family’s stories\, history\, place\, and identity\, these poems glimmer with strength and presence.” —Publishers Weekly  \n“An unsettling\, powerful\, important debut.” —Booklist \n“The poet is able to offer quiet wisdom without sentimentality. Ultimately this poet refuses to surrender to victimhood. The chapbook ends optimistically in the borough of Brooklyn\, where the young speaker lives happily\, sometimes seen in the neighborhood eating bagels with friends and writing new poems. She has found her way to ‘the healing fields.’” ―Marilyn Chin \nAbout A Nail the Evening Hangs On \nIn this staggering poetry debut\, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A Nail the Evening Hangs On travels from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap\, where Tuol Sleng and other war museums reshape the imagination of a child of refugees; to New York City and Lancaster\, where the dailiness of intergenerational trauma persists on the subway or among the cornfields of a small hometown. Embracing collective memory\, both real and imagined\, these poems move across time to break familial silence. Sok pieces together voices and fragments—using persona\, myth\, and imagination—in a transformative work that builds towards wholeness. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monica-sok-a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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