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CANCELED: Wendy Drexler & Gabrielle Calvocoressi at Belmont Books

November 15, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Wendy Drexler’s Before There Was Before is that rare book that both ranges far, into the worlds of science, nature and art, and moves in close, examining her own particular human experience. Drexler takes us back in time to the Big Bang and projects us 7.5 billion years into the future. She thinks about birds and elephants, flies, beetles, crickets, chameleons. She imagines Monet and CEzanne, she listens to Schubert, looks closely at film, sculpture, paintings and photographs. The pressure of time and the consolations of intimacy, which animate these poems, carry over into the more personal poems, threading the wider vision to the tighter one. Relying always on carefully observed and imagined particulars, she parries the pressure of time with an insistence on living attentively. -Let’s take a stab / at the dark, – she says in the title poem. Let’s -time our tea, // if we have tea, / if we have time.- Drexler takes her stab at the dark, and we are all the better for it.

Like nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer.

“A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. . . Both innovative and sensual, Rocket Fantastic is a vital book for our time.”–Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle

Details

Date:
November 15, 2018
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://www.belmontbooks.com/event/wendy-drexler-gabrielle-calvocoressi

Organizer

Belmont Books
Phone:
(617) 932-1496
Email:
info@belmontbooks.com
Website:
http://www.belmontbooks.com

Venue

Belmont Books
79 Leonard Street
Belmont, MA 02478
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Phone:
(617) 932-1496
Website:
http://www.belmontbooks.com

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.