Visit City Lights Bookstore
on Saturday, April 21st at 6:30 p.m. for an
evening of music and poetry. Poets Richard Krawiec (She Hands Me the
Razor), and Sharon McDermott (Bitter
Acoustic) will read from their collections. McDermott, also a
musician, will sing and play guitar.
Of She
Hands Me a Razor, Kay Byer says, "She Hands Me the
Razor is an edgy and satisfying marriage of tenderness and well-honed
attentiveness to the connections, often fraying, among people and the various
places in which they find themselves, both physically and emotionally...The
poems in She Hands Me the Razor ferry us through dangerous
waters, leaving us finally upon the shore of grace, that infusion of morning
light on a loved face. W.H. Auden wrote, In Memory of W. B. Yeats: "In
the prison of his days/ Teach the free man how to praise." Krawiec's new
collection of poems culminates in praise, which has always been the goal and
gift of poetry."
Of Bitter Acoustic National Book
Award winner Jean Valentine says, "Sharon McDermott has an acute musical ear,
and the life of sound, and how it intensifies feeling, is everywhere in Bitter
Acoustic. 'Then drizzle blew the night to pins' is an instance early in these
pages. The book, for me, begins in blues, rueful, not self-pitying; wise, but
caught. Then in the second part of the book, the ground begins to shift: the
poetry itself seems happy to be joyful, and gains life from it. A hard-earned,
beautiful book."
In late-breaking news,
we'll also be treated to a sampling from Jacar Press's latest anthology titled
...and love... which features the poetry of Kay Byer, doris davenport,
Susan Lefler, Ron Rash, Marge Piercy, Sam Hamill, Fred Chappell, Bedtty Adcock,
Nancy Simpson, Holly Iglesias and over 100 other
poets.
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