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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Brian Tierney with William Brewer\, Randall Mann\, and Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, February 11th at 7pm PT when Brian Tierney celebrates his collection\, Rise and Float\, at 9th Ave! \nFeaturing fellow poets William Brewer\, Randall Mann\, and Noah Warren \nMasks and Proof of Vaccination Required for In-Person Attendance \nOr watch online by registering at the link here \nPraise for Rise and Float \n“In these poems of turnpikes\, water\, and migraine light\, filled with grief and life\, the poet tells us it’s all right that ‘we don’t love / living.’ Here\, precision is a form of metaphor\, language a facet of experience; the poet writes with a kind of allusive purity and vulnerability—‘each thought a texture’—that I find moving. Rise and Float is that rare thing\, a book of one striking poem after another. If I could write something as tender and nearly perfect as ‘You’re the One I Wanna Watch the Last Ships Go Down With’—a lightning strike\, Randall Jarrell might have called it—then I’d consider giving up writing.”—Randall Mann \n“If the job of the poet is to make our interiority knowable and known\, then this book by Brian Tierney triumphs. In this magnificent debut\, a poet arrives to us fully formed\, and Tierney has found ways to transform the mundane into the mysterious\, and the mysterious into the transcendent. Readers will be swept away by the rigors of syntax\, the sparse and charged diction\, and the voice of these worldly\, humane\, sophisticated poems.”—Mark Wunderlich \n“Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float is resonant with the desire for rapture and the never-easing reality of loss. How do we go on living\, these poems seem to ask\, bearing what we must bear? And in lines by turns dolorous and defiant\, they answer: We watch\, we remember\, and we sing.”—Tracy K. Smith \nAbout Rise and Float \nChosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize\, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably\, miraculously—to make our most profound\, private wounds visible on the page. \nWith the “corpse of Frost” under his heel\, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness\, a struggle with disordered eating\, a father’s death from cancer\, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still\, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips\,” a “laugh as good as a scream\,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome\, but to release. \nThe course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying\, these days\, to believe again / in people\,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices\, we see something alluringly\, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide\, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams\, something intimate—hope\, however difficult it may be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-brian-tierney-with-william-brewer-randall-mann-and-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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