Forrest Gander and Rosamond S. King at the Poetry Project

Oct, 17 2018 | 8:00 PM

Forrest Gander and Rosamond S. King at the Poetry Project

The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church

Address: 131 E 10th Street
City: New York
State: NY
Zip: 10003
www.poetryproject.org

Forrest Gander will speak about and sign his new book, Be With, on Wednesday, October 17th at 8pm.

Online tickets are available on the event website until an hour before this event. Unless otherwise noted on the event website, tickets will continue to be available at the door.

About the book:

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section—a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s—rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.”

About the Poetry Project:

Since its founding in 1966, the Poetry Project has been a forum for public literary events and a resource for writers. Over the past five decades, thousands of poets, writers and performers have shared their work here. With three distinct reading/performance series, plus talks and special events, the Poetry Project is a vital and hospitable hub for the writing community in New York City.

Now in its 51st season, the Poetry Project continues to be a premiere venue for poets, writers, artists and performers whose work is experimental, innovative and pertinent to writing that proposes fresh aesthetic, cultural, philosophical and political approaches to contemporary society.