A Night Of Poetry
Kevin Killian, Jocelyn Saidenberg and George Albon At Books, Inc.
- When
- Thu Apr 17, 2008
- Where
- Books Inc. in the Castro
- Time
- 7:30pm - 9pm
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Author Appearances, Poetry, Gay, Gay Literary Arts, Gay Books, Gay Community
Description
Poets Kevin Killian, Jocelyn Saidenberg & George Albon, will be reading their favorite and best written poems, celebrating National Poetry Month.In his first poetry collection, Argento Series, novelist Kevin Killian views the horrors of the AIDS pandemic through the films of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento. Structured like a horror film, populating deadpan reportage with badly drawn "characters" whose grisly deaths nevertheless come as an apocalyptic shock, it is a testament to human suffering, a call to political action unlike any other.
Jocelyn Saidenberg's third book of poetry, Negativity, begins in a "dusky" wood, but instead of descending to hell she journeys through the negativity of earthly relations. We hear of friends, lovers, and a declining country--all filtered by a consciousness equally troubled by its own suffering and the suffering of others.
A moment is an inside flutter, a reflection, a civil relapse. George Albon's Momentary Songs, sound the possibilities of forwardness and hope in a surrounding twilight of unprecedented venality. Using a variety of registers--lyrical inquiry, Blakean exhortation, the satirical spiel of Morgenstern's Gallows Songs--they search for alternative states (public ones, affective ones) as well as offer a probe on what has come to pass: "In this eclipse are we the inclement for placing it?"
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