Thursday, September 3rd: Poetry Flash presents C.S. Giscombe & Kit RobinsonC.S. Giscombe's new book of poems is Prairie Style. Marjorie Perloff says of it, "In a series of dense, aphoristic, interrelated meditations, Giscombe unearths a unique 'Afro-Prairie' world of love and loss. Inland's what I can memoirize and recite, the poet tells us. This is a haunting and beautiful book." His other books of poetry include Postcards, Here, and Giscombe Road; he's also published a book of essays, Into and Out of Dislocation. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Kit Robinson's new book is The Messianic Trees, his selected poems. Tom Raworth praises it: "The Messianic Trees (organ cue) is a xylophone for the soul, the music as he passes poems that refresh eye and mind and shift for a second glance." One of the core members of Bay Area literary renaissance and Language movements, Robinson performed with San Francisco Poets Theater and produced "In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets," a weekly radio program of live readings and interviews with co-host Lyn Hejinian on KPFA in Berkeley. He's published seventeen books of poetry, and his honors include a Fund for Poetry Prize and an NEA fellowship. |
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