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A Night of Poetry From Pittsburgh University Press

A night of poetry from Pittsburgh University Press – feat. Chris Bakken, Lynn Emanuel, Martha Collins, Sharon Dolin

Independent bookstore Book Culture will host a night of Pittsburgh University Press poetry from the Pitt Poetry Series! Poets Chris Bakken, Lynn Emanuel, Martha Collins and Sharon Doli will read from their respective books of poetry.

Bakken will be reading from his book, Eternity & Oranges. Christopher Bakken’s poems are acts of conjuring. They move from the real political landscapes of Greece, Italy, and Romania, into more surreal spaces where history comes alive and the summoned dead speak. In the formally diverse long poem, Kouros/Kore, but also in this book’s terse and harrowing dream songs, Bakken writes with devastating force, at every turn Guilty of the crime of praise while begging for an antidote to beauty.

Emanuel’s version of a new and selected poems, The Nerve of It, turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical.

In Admit One: An American Scrapbook, Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair through the eugenics movement of the 1920s. Using a wide variety of documentary sources, including her Illinois grandfather’s newspaper, Collins constructs a “scrapbook” of fragments, quotations, narrative passages, and lyrical riffs that reveal startling connections between the Fair, the Bronx Zoo, and ideas that culminated in anti-immigration, anti-miscegenation, and eugenic sterilization laws in 1924.

Dolin’s Manual for Living offers three distinct approaches to life, each one riven by flashes of joy and despair, and all conditions in between. As in all of her work, Dolin’s lyric voice attends to language and the world equally. Her verbal sleights-of-hand offer readers insights for ways to live. Manual for Living is a wise book: drink deeply from it.

This is a free event and authors will be available to sign books following the readings.











When: Mon., Apr. 25, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Book Culture on Columbus
450 Columbus Ave.

Price: Free
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A night of poetry from Pittsburgh University Press – feat. Chris Bakken, Lynn Emanuel, Martha Collins, Sharon Dolin

Independent bookstore Book Culture will host a night of Pittsburgh University Press poetry from the Pitt Poetry Series! Poets Chris Bakken, Lynn Emanuel, Martha Collins and Sharon Doli will read from their respective books of poetry.

Bakken will be reading from his book, Eternity & Oranges. Christopher Bakken’s poems are acts of conjuring. They move from the real political landscapes of Greece, Italy, and Romania, into more surreal spaces where history comes alive and the summoned dead speak. In the formally diverse long poem, Kouros/Kore, but also in this book’s terse and harrowing dream songs, Bakken writes with devastating force, at every turn Guilty of the crime of praise while begging for an antidote to beauty.

Emanuel’s version of a new and selected poems, The Nerve of It, turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical.

In Admit One: An American Scrapbook, Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair through the eugenics movement of the 1920s. Using a wide variety of documentary sources, including her Illinois grandfather’s newspaper, Collins constructs a “scrapbook” of fragments, quotations, narrative passages, and lyrical riffs that reveal startling connections between the Fair, the Bronx Zoo, and ideas that culminated in anti-immigration, anti-miscegenation, and eugenic sterilization laws in 1924.

Dolin’s Manual for Living offers three distinct approaches to life, each one riven by flashes of joy and despair, and all conditions in between. As in all of her work, Dolin’s lyric voice attends to language and the world equally. Her verbal sleights-of-hand offer readers insights for ways to live. Manual for Living is a wise book: drink deeply from it.

This is a free event and authors will be available to sign books following the readings.

Buy tickets/get more info now